This sheet music for the song, "Only a Rose (on the Streets of Gold and Sorrow)” was written and composed by George Little, E. E. Elder and Larry Shay and published by Shapiro, Bernstein and Co. of New York, New York in 1924. The cover is mostly dark blue, with a picture of a woman in long dress by a window. There is an inset photograph of Harry Stephens in right hand corner.
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