Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)

Photo: The Sequim Lavender Grower’s Association

Lavender wands, lavender sachets, lavender ice cream, lavender cookies. It’s time for lavender festivals, coast to coast. http://www.gardentraveler.com/pages/events.htm

Now it’s time for some lavender songs. Lavender Blue (Dilly, Dilly) was performed by Burl Ives in a Disney movie and some other artists, including Solomon Burke. Sammy Turner had a Top 40 hit that your grandparents (or you) danced to back in 1959. Remember this one?

Here are the lyrics and a link to Sammy Turner singing:
Lavender Blue (Dilly, Dilly)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6djUWGzhnc

Lavender blue, dilly-dilly

Lavender green

If I were king, dilly-dilly, I'd need a queen

Whoa-oh, who told me so?, dilly-dilly

Who told me so?

I told myself, dilly-dilly

I told me so

If your dilly-dilly heart

Feels a dilly-dilly way

If you'll answer yes

In a pretty little church

On a dilly-dilly day

You'll be wed in a dilly-dilly dress of

Lavender blue, dilly-dilly

Lavender green

Then I'll be king, dilly-dilly

You'll be my queen

Then I'll be king dilly-dilly

You'll be my queen
Lavender's blue, dilly dilly,

Lavender's green

When you are King, dilly dilly,

I shall be Queen

Who told you so, dilly dilly,

Who told you so?'

Twas my own heart, dilly dilly,

That told me so

Call up your friends, dilly, dilly

Set them to work

Some to the plough, dilly dilly,

Some to the fork

Some to the hay, dilly dilly,

Some to thresh corn

Whilst you and I, dilly dilly,

Keep ourselves warm

Lavender's blue, dilly dilly,

Lavender's green

When you are King, dilly dilly,

I shall be Queen

Who told you so, dilly dilly,

Who told you so?'

Twas my own heart, dilly dilly,

That told me so