"Lavender Blue (Dilly, Dilly)" is a song from the 1948 Disney film So Dear to My Heart. It was sung by Burl Ives, and helped make it and him very popular. It originated in the late 1700s and was brought back to popularity when it was performed by Ives. The Disney version has the music and lyrics written by Larry Morey and Eliot Daniel. In addition, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song, but lost to "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from Neptune's Daughter.
The song was also used as a DTV music video in the 1980s, using clips from The Nifty Nineties, Brave Little Tailor, The China Shop, The Cookie Carnival, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. The video was also featured on the compilation videotape, DTV: Golden Oldies.
Additionally, the song was heard in the 2015 Disney live-action adaptation of Cinderella. It was sung to Cinderella by her mother when she is a child, and later by her when she gets locked in her room by Lady Tremaine.
Lyrics[]
Great grandfather met great grandmother
When she was a shy young miss
And great grandfather won great grandmother
With words, more or less, like this...
Lavender blue, dilly, dilly
Lavender green
If I were king, dilly, dilly
I'd need a queen
Who told you so, dilly, dilly
Who told you so?
I told myself, dilly, dilly
I told me so
If your dilly, dilly heart
Feels a dilly, dilly way
And if you'll answer "yes"
In a pretty little church
On a dilly, dilly day
You'll thee wed in the dilly, dilly dress of
Lavender blue, dilly, dilly
Lavender green
Then I'll be king, dilly, dilly
And you'll be my queen
If your dilly, dilly heart
Feels a dilly, dilly way
And if you'll answer "yes"
In a pretty little church
On a dilly dilly day
You'll thee wed in the dilly, dilly dress of
Lavender blue, dilly, dilly
Lavender green
Then I'll be king, dilly, dilly
And you'll be my queen
Lavender's blue, dilly, dilly
Lavender's green
When I am king, dilly, dilly
You shall be queen
Who told you so, dilly, dilly
Who told you so?
'Twas my own heart, dilly, dilly
That told me so
Call up your men, dilly, dilly
Set them to work
Some to the plow, dilly, dilly
Some to the fork
Some to make hay, dilly, dilly
Some to cut corn
While you and I, dilly, dilly
Keep ourselves warm
Lavender's green, dilly, dilly
Lavender's blue
If you love me, dilly, dilly
I will love you
Let the birds sing, dilly, dilly
Let the lambs play
We shall be safe, dilly, dilly
Out of harm's way
I love to dance, dilly, dilly
I love to sing
When I am queen, dilly, dilly
You'll be my king
Who told me so, dilly, dilly
Who told me so?
I told myself, dilly, dilly
I told me so
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- It is also referenced in "The Spectrum Song" when Ludwig Von Drake utters the line: "Whatever happened to just plain old lavender blue dilly...dilly...silly?"
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