| The Story of the Rose (Heart of My Heart) | |
|---|---|
| 1899 - w. 'Alice', m. Andrew Mack (1863-1931) | |
| Verse: | A youth one day in a garden fair A rose found wither'd and dying. And all for love, ah! love in vain, This rose was sadly sighing. |
| Chorus: | Heart of my heart, I love you. Life would be naught without you. Light of my life, my darling. I love you, I love you. |
| Note: | NOT Gang That Sang Heart of My Heart, 1926, Ben Ryan. The NOT PD Ryan Song is about a group that sang this 1899 song. |
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The lyrics, melody. and arrangement of The Story of the Rose (Heart of My Heart) as published before 1931 are in the public domain in the USA. However, it is a virtual certainty that video, sound recordings, and 1931 or later music arrangements of this song are under copyright protection. Only sound recordings published in 1925 or earlier are in the public domain in the USA.
If you create your own derivate arrangement based on any version of this song published after 1930 you are liable for copyright infringment on derivative works made by others. This is especially true of folk songs and spirituals. Many versions of folk songs, spirituals, and some popular songs as known today are actually derivative works under copyright that were created from PD songs often quite different from well known versions today.
THE ONLY WAY to know precisely what lyrics and melody are in the public domain is to obtain a Sheet Music Publication with a Copyright Date of 1930 or earlier. You then work from the PD publication to create and copyright your own derivative work.