Paper Roses! (Anita Bryant) (Lyrics) (1960) A Short Romance Video!

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LYRICS:

I realize the way your eyes deceived me
With tender looks that I mistook for love!

So take away the flowers that you gave me
And send the kind that you remind me of!

Paper roses, paper roses
Oh, how real those roses seemed to be
But they're only imitation
Like your imitation love for me!

I thought that you would be a perfect lover
You seemed so full of sweetness at the start!

But like a big red rose
That's made of paper
There isn't any sweetness
In your heart!

Paper roses, paper roses
Oh, how real those roses seem to be
But they're only imitation
Like your imitation love for me
Like your imitation love for me!

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"Paper Roses" is a popular song written and composed by Fred Spielman and Janice Torre. It first was a top five hit in 1960 for Anita Bryant with Monty Kelly's Orchestra and Chorus. Marie Osmond later covered it in 1973 and took her version to number one on the US country chart.

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Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940) is an American singer, former Miss Oklahoma beauty pageant winner, and former brand ambassador for the Florida Citrus Commission (which marketed orange juice). She scored four Top 40 hits in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including "Paper Roses", which reached #5 on the charts.

Bryant later became known as an outspoken opponent of gay rights and for her 1977 "Save Our Children" campaign to repeal a local ordinance in Dade County, Florida, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. This involvement significantly damaged her popularity and career in show business. Had the American Church stood with her at this time & supported God’s mandate for Christian Marriage then perhaps we would NOT have many of the problems that we do now in 2017! (Ref: Romans 1)