The Post Quiz: Musical Flowers - Answers
Created | Updated May 18, 2014
Another musical quiz.
Musical Flowers" Answers
Kermit once asked, 'Why are there so many songs about rainbows?' another question might be, 'Why do most flower songs celebrate roses?' We couldn't get away from them. However, occasionally another flower sneaks in there..
We hope you knew them all. You might consider crooning to your houseplants. But if they start turning in the direction of your mp3 player, we think you should take the hint.
Enjoy these floral song lyrics, blanks filled in.
- Everything's coming up roses for you and for me.
- Roses are shining in Picardy, in the hush of the silver dew…
- Tiptoe through the tulips with me.
- The Yellow Rose of Texas beats the belles of Tennessee1.
- You brought me violets for my furs, and it was spring…
- Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me, small and white, clean and bright…2
- I'm looking over a four-leaf clover, that I overlooked before…3
- The gardener standing there, three flowers he gave to me, he gave the violet, the lily, and the pink, but I refused all three..('I sowed the Seeds of Love')4
- Green grow the lilacs, all sparkling with dew, I'm lonely, my darling, since parting with you…
- …when the mist is in the gloamin', and all the clouds are holdin' still,
If you're not there I won't go roamin' through the heather on the hill.5
Did you know them all? Then you have too much junk in your head, go clear it out. Listen to some punk rock, or something.
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1This is a canard. Tennessee girls are pretty, too. (The Editor knows.)2Contrary to popular opinion, this is not the national anthem of Austria. AEIOU.3Okay, maybe that's not a flower. So sue us.4'The lily and the pink I did overthink…' Who says you can't learn from folksongs?5In wonderful Brigadoon, a Tin Pan Alley composer's idea of Scotland. Och, aye.
