Lavender-Blue (Dilly Dilly)Sammy TurnerCharted at # 3 in 1959Previously charted in 1949 by Sammy Kaye (#4), Dinah Shore (#9), Burl Ives (#16), and Jack Smith (#17)Words and Music by Larry Morey and Eliot DanielSung in the film "So Dear To My Heart" by Dinah ShoreLavender blue, dilly-dillyLavender greenIf I were king, dilly-dilly, I'd need a queenWhoa-oh, who told me so?, dilly-dillyWho told me so?I told myself, dilly-dillyI told me soIf your dilly-dilly heartFeels a dilly-dilly wayIf you'll answer yesIn a pretty little churchOn a dilly-dilly dayYou'll be wed in a dilly-dilly dress ofLavender blue, dilly-dillyLavender greenThen I'll be king, dilly-dillyYou'll be my queenThen I'll be king dilly-dillyYou'll be my queen(Lavender blue, dilly-dilly)
