Peggy March (born Margaret Annemarie Battavio on March 8, 1948, Lansdale, P… Read Full Bio ↴Peggy March (born Margaret Annemarie Battavio on March 8, 1948, Lansdale, Pennsylvania) is an American pop music singer. She was discovered at age thirteen singing at a wedding and was introduced to the record producer duo Hugo & Luigi. They gave her the nickname Little Peggy March because of her 4'10" height, the fact that she was thirteen, the first record she did with them was "Little Me", and her birthdate was in March.

In April 1963, her single "I Will Follow Him" had soared to number one on U.S. charts. Recorded in early January 1963 and released January 22 of that year, it made Peggy March the youngest female singer with a number one hit at age fifteen. The record also took the number one spot in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Scandinavia.

Her success also came with financial trouble. March was a minor and the Coogan Law prevented her parents from managing her money. The responsibility was placed on her manager, Russell Smith. It was discovered in 1966 that he had squandered the fortune away, leaving her with $500. Peggy graduated from Lansdale Catholic High School in 1966. She soon had a new manager, Arnie Harris, who became her husband and gave her one daughter, Sande, born in 1974.

Though she is remembered by some as a one-hit wonder, her singles "I Wish I Were a Princess" and "Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love" made the Top 30 in the United States and the United Kingdom. She began making a very strong presence in the European and Asian music markets, and she moved to Germany around 1969. Her commercial success in Germany continued through much of the 1970s. In 1979 she experimented with disco on the album, Electrifying, but it failed to achieve commercial success. By 1981 record companies did not renew her contracts, and she moved back to the United States. A retro fad in Germany brought her some continuing success starting in the mid-1990s. Her song "I Will Follow Him" largely inspired the beat in the Eminem and Dr. Dre song Guilty Conscience, and was also featured in the 1992 movie Sister Act. Currently she works largely in the Las Vegas music scene.

Er schoß mir eine Rose
Peggy March Lyrics

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Er schoss mir eine Rose
aus lila Glanzpapier.
Er war ein Lichtmatrose
und musste fort von hier.
Die feine kleine Rose
aus lila Glanzpapier,
schoss mir der Ahnungslose
als letztes Souvernier.

Er war so gut, er war so treu
zwei Tage und 'ne Monscheinnacht.
Es hieß adieu und Schiff ahoi,
mein Schatz wer hätte das gedacht.
Er schoss mir eine Rose
aus lila Glanzpapier.
Er war ein Leichtmatrose
und musste fort von hier.
Die feine kleine Rose
aus lila Glanzpapier,

schoss mir der Ahnungslose
als letztes Souvernier. (2x)

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Peggy March's song "Er schoss mir eine Rose" tell the story of a woman receiving a rose from a sailor, who is leaving for his next voyage. The rose is made out of purple glossy paper, and it serves as a souvenir of their time together. The woman reminisces about the few days and one moonlit night they spent together, and how she never thought she would have to say goodbye so soon. The sailor was a light matrose, or light sailor, which is a sailor without experience, and he had to leave despite the connection he had with the woman. The rose symbolizes their brief and intense connection and serves as a reminder of what they shared.

The tone of the song is bittersweet, as it captures the sadness of having to part ways with someone you care about deeply, even if the relationship was short-lived. The lyrics speak to the universal experience of falling in love, and the pain of having to say goodbye when circumstances make it impossible to stay together.

Er schoß mir eine RosePeggy March Lyrics

Er schoß mir eine Rose
Peggy March Lyrics