Aura Lea

"Aura Lee"
Song
Published	1861
Composer(s)	George R. Poulton
Lyricist(s)	W. W. Fosdick
Language	English

"Aura Lea" (sometimes spelled "Aura Lee") is an American Civil War song about a maiden. It was written by W. W. Fosdick (lyrics) and George R. Poulton (music).

The lyrics as written by Fosdick:

"Aura Lee" was memorably sung by Frances Farmer and a male chorus in the 1936 film Come and Get It, based on Edna Ferber's novel.

Diana Muldaur sings the song to David Carradine in the episode "The Elixir" of Kung Fu.

The Elvis Presley song "Love Me Tender" (lyrics by Ken Darby) is a derivative adaptation of this song. A later Presley recording for the film The Trouble with Girls entitled "Violet (Flower of N.Y.U.)" also used the melody of "Aura Lea".

Jerry Lanning performed the song in "Big Star", a 1962 episode of The Donna Reed Show.

The television cavalry comedy F Troop used a variation of the song to welcome saloon singer Laura Lee in the episode "She's Only a Build in a Girdled Cage" (cf. "She's only a bird in a gilded cage").

The television western The Young Riders used the song in its series finale, which took place in 1861 and showed how the American Civil War was affecting its characters' lives.

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