No. 9462, "A Lemon in the Garden of Love," by Billy Murray,
is the principal song hit in Richard Carle's "The Spring Chicken,"
which ranks among the best successes of the New York theatres this season.
Daly's Theatre is crowded to the doors at every performance.
This feature song is the plaint of a married man anxious to know
why he picked a lemon in his matrimonial venture into the garden of love
where only peaches were supposed to grow.
In the chorus he sings:
Will some one kindly tell me,
Will some one answer why,
To me it is a riddle
And it will be till I die;
A million peaches 'round me
Yet I would like to know
Why I picked a lemon in the garden of love
Where only peaches grow.
Richard Carle wrote the music and M. E. Rourke the words to this song.
Mr. Murray sings with orchestra accompaniment.
— December 1906 Edison Phonograph Monthly [announcing the February 1907 records]
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