# Songs with flowers in the titles **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034 "2012-04-26T16:27:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/1 "2012-04-26T16:27:55Z")
Spring is here and full blooms are right around the corner–so what songs or music pieces stand out to you with specific flowers in the titles? For the sake of simplicity, let’s exclude **Rose** because we know there are a million of them. Similarly, generic _Flower_ is out, as well as other flora (trees, vines, etc.) I’ll start with _ **Green Grow the Lilacs** _ ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/2 "2012-04-26T16:32:02Z")
“Lilac Girl” - Barenaked Ladies “Daffodil Lament” - Cranberries ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/3 "2012-04-26T16:33:17Z")
[Daisy, daisy, give me your answer, do…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEN5TjYRCE) ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/4 "2012-04-26T16:34:33Z")
Scarlet Begonias—Grateful Dead ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/5 "2012-04-26T16:40:45Z")
_Red Roses For A Blue Lady_ ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/6 "2012-04-26T16:41:37Z")
“Dandelion” - Rolling Stones “Cherry Blossom Clinic” - The Move “A Lotus on Irish Streams” - Mahavishnu Orchestra “Pictures of Lily” - The Who (if we can allow floral names) “Edelweiss” - from _The Sound of Music_ ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/7 "2012-04-26T16:57:30Z")
The Chrysanthemum – Scott Joplin Dirt Dishing Daisy – [recorded by] The Mills Brothers Gladiolus Rag – Scott Joplin Heliotrope Bouquet – Scott Joplin Honeysuckle Rose – Fats Waller Lily of the Valley – [recorded by] Original Hurricane Brass Band Sun Flower Slow Drag – Scott Joplin Tip-Toe Through the Tulips – Dubin and Burke, [recorded by] Nick Lucas The song **Alessan** quoted is called “Daisy Bell.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/8 "2012-04-26T17:54:49Z")
The One Red Rose that I Mean – Captain Beefheart I’ll Be With you in Apple Blossom Time – The Andrews Sisters ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/9 "2012-04-26T18:08:21Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > … > > For the sake of simplicity, let’s exclude **Rose** because we know there are a million of them… > [@blondebear](#): > > _Red Roses For A Blue Lady_ :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/10 "2012-04-26T18:38:38Z")
A White Sport Coat and a Pink Carnation - Marty Robbins ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/11 "2012-04-26T18:40:06Z")
_Lily, Rosemary & the Jack of Hearts_ - Bob Dylan ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/12 "2012-04-26T18:49:03Z")
Hyacinth House - The Doors Morning Glory - Oasis ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/13 "2012-04-26T18:51:12Z")
“[Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7iMkI_je2U)” by Perez Prado “[Orange Blossom Special](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f_QySKfsgI)” by all kinds of people (here by Vassar Clements) “[Veteran’s Day Poppy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6mzoso95-Q)” by Captain Beefheart “[Lily of the West](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJSlhhXiPzw)” (here by Bob Dylan) ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/14 "2012-04-26T19:33:28Z")
Yellow Rose of Texas ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/15 "2012-04-26T19:40:31Z")
Nothing But Flowers, Talking Heads ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/16 "2012-04-26T19:44:24Z")
“Build me up Buttercup” - The Foundations ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/17 "2012-04-26T19:52:09Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > _Red Roses For A Blue Lady_ > [@Leaffan](#): > > :dubious: :smack: Guilty as charged, but I must register a protest against unfair flower exclusion! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/18 "2012-04-26T20:05:26Z")
_Percy, the Puny Poinsettia_ - Christmas song _Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)_ - “This song was first published in 1924, and was a #1 hit in 1941 for the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra with vocals by Helen O’Connell and Bob Eberly” (Youtube). ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/19 "2012-04-26T20:15:23Z")
[I’m a Lonely Little Petunia in an Onion Patch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7nO9n6Ez64) ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034/20 "2012-04-26T20:32:41Z")
_Forget-me-not_ - Lucie Silvas _Forget-me-not_ - Céline Dion [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-flowers-in-the-titles/620034.md?page=2)