Roses de picardie paroles yves montand biography
Roses de picardie paroles yves montand biography
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Roses of Picardy
20th century British song
For the British film, see Roses of Picardy (film). For the British musical, see Roses of Picardy (musical).
"Roses of Picardy" is a popular British song with lyrics by Frederic Weatherly and music by Haydn Wood.
Published in London in 1916 by Chappell & Co, it was one of the most famous songs of the First World War and has been recorded frequently up to the present day.
Background
The lyricist Fred Weatherly had become impressed with beauty of the voice of the sopranoElsie Griffin, who later became a leading artiste with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.[1] Her singing of his compositions resulted in his writing two of the most popular hits of the 20th-century "Danny Boy" (1910) and "Roses of Picardy".[2] The composer Haydn Wood wrote the music for over 200 ballads, of which "Roses of Picardy" became his most popular.
Wood related that the melody came to him as he was going home one night on the top of a