"Somewhere in France Is the Lily"
by Charles Hart
Sheet music courtesy of Clarence Johnson |
There is nothing macabre about this lilting tune, another fitted for the stage and martial encouragement. The metaphor of the lilies for American boys and roses for British and the garden being the source of togetherness and success, for the soldiers and for the sweethearts who tend the flowers in their gardens. The refrain is one of the most singable of the war. It introduces, not for the first time but perhaps most poignantly, the standard location for every soldier in the A.E.F. "somewhere in France."
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