{"id":235,"date":"2019-12-12T04:19:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T04:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=235"},"modified":"2025-12-09T22:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:32:02","slug":"daisy-bell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/daisy-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Daisy Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
AKA<\/strong><\/td>Daisy Daisy<\/td><\/tr>
First published<\/td>1892<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Lyrics<\/strong><\/td>Harry Dacre <\/td>Music<\/strong><\/td>Harry Dacre<\/td>Roud Index<\/strong><\/td>RN29754<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Music Hall performers<\/strong><\/td>Kate Lawrence, 1890s
Florrie Forde, 1900s on<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>??<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
There is a flower within my heart\nDaisy, Daisy\nPlanted one day by a glancing dart\nPlanted by Daisy Bell\nWhether she loves me or loves me not\nSometimes it's hard to tell\nYet I am longing to share the lot\nOf beautiful Daisy Bell.\n\nDaisy, Daisy\nGive me your answer do\nI'm half crazy\nAll for the love of you\nIt won't be a stylish marriage\nI can't afford a carriage\nBut you'll look sweet upon the seat\nOf a bicycle built for two.<\/em>\n\nWe will go \u201ctandem\u201d as man and wife\nDaisy, Daisy\nPeddling away down the road of life\nI and my Daisy Bell\nWhen the road's dark we can despise\nPolicemen and lamps as well\nThere are bright lights in the dazzling eyes\nOf beautiful Daisy Bell.\n\nI will stand by you in \u201cwheel\u201d or woe\nDaisy, Daisy\nYou'll be the bell (e) which I'll ring you know\nSweet little Daisy Bell\nYou'll take the lead in each trip we take\nThen if I don't do well\nI will permit you to use the brake\nMy beautiful Daisy Bell.\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
The song was originally written with a chorus about a donkey-cart built for two, and enjoyed some limited success in the UK in that form. When Harry Dacre <\/a>arrived in the USA he found that a donkey-cart was referred to as a mule and wagon, so he changed the chorus. He sold the song to Kate Lawrence<\/a> who had great success with it in the 1890s, it later became part of Florrie Forde’s repertoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was collected from the singing of Harold Wirdman (1998) and Stan Seaman (2000) in England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A recording or download of this song can be purchased from Windyridge CDs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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