(Sandy Denny)

Roses are red, and violets are blue

Primroses pale on a velvet green hue

Warm summer days by cool waterfalls

Like the music we hear

Those things we'll always hold dear

Like an old fashioned waltz

When the moonlight shines down

On the Hollywood world

And the heroine waits for her beau to return

And violins play from behind garden walls

How I'd love to remain with the silver refrain

Of an old fashioned waltz

As they dance round the floor

And there's no-one else there

And the world is no more and there's never a care

By the perfect lagoon where the nightingale calls

With only the moon and the nostalgic tune

Of an old fashioned waltz

Roses are red and violets are blue

Primroses pale on a velvet green hue

Warm summer days by cool waterfalls

Like the music we hear

Those things we'll always hold dear

Like an old fashioned waltz

Like an old fashioned waltz

An old fashioned waltz