Suggestive programs for special day exercises/Memorial Day/Scatter the Flowers
SCATTER THE FLOWERS.
ADA SIMPSON SHERWOOD.
[Air:—“Tenting on the Old Camp Ground.”]
We come with gifts of flowers sweet
For each dear soldier’s grave;
We’ll cover the mounds where they gently sleep,
Those boys so true and brave.
Chorus:—
Many are the boys who are sleeping for aye
Under the sod and dew;
Many are the hearts sending love today
To those brave boys in blue.
Scatter the flowers, scatter the flowers.
Over the soldiers’ graves.
Scatter the flowers, scatter the flowers.
Over the soldiers’ graves.
We’ll honor the graves of our soldiers dead,
Who heard their country’s cry.
Who left their homes and fought and bled
And died for liberty.
We’ll bring them today the violets blue,
And roses red and white.
Those colors bright they bore so true,
For God and home and right.