THE ROSARY
(Music: Ethelbert Nevin / Words: Robert Cameron Rogers - 1898)

William H. Thompson - 1902
Henry Burr - 1903
Alan Turner - 1906
Ernestine Schumann-Heink - 1908
John McCormack - 1912
The Taylor Trio (Instr.) - 1916
Perry Como - 1950
Mario Lanza - 1951
Red Foley - 1951
Johnny Mathis - 1958

Also recorded by: Nelson Eddy; Dame Clara Butt;
Sir Charles Saintly; Wilhelm Strienz; Liberace;
George Morgan; Richard Crooks; Mahalia Jackson;
Joni James; Josef Locke; Jimmy Wakely.



The hours I spent with thee, dear heart
Are as a string of pearls to me
I count them over, ev'ry one apart
My rosary, my rosary

Each hour a pearl, each pearl a prayer
To still a heart in absence wrung
I tell each bead unto the end
And there a cross is hung

O, memories that bless and burn
O, barren gain and bitter loss
I kiss each bead and strive at last to learn
To kiss the cross, sweet heart, to kiss the cross



(Contributed by Peter Akers - January 2009))