Lavender-Blue (Dilly Dilly)
Sammy Turner
[Words and Music by Larry Morey and Eliot Daniel]

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 blue, dilly-dilly)

[Charted at #3 in 1959]
[Previously charted in 1949 by Sammy Kaye #4]
[Dinah Shore #9]
[Burl Ives #16]
[Jack Smith #17]
[Sung in the film "So Dear To My Heart"]

Notes: My brother, Bill and I were fortunate to have seen this film
while growing up together. Bill was 18 months younger and loved all
animals and was loved by all in return. "So Dear to My Heart" is a
great film and all parents should see this with their children while
their children are as young as the boy with the black lamb.