21 year old Lieutenant F. Scott Fitzgerald meets 18 year old Zelda Sayre at a Saturday night dance in Montgomery Alabama. Scott steps outside the dance hall to take a breath of fresh air. A magnolia tree is in full blossom. He plucks a blossom from the tree and sings:-

Oh beautiful magnolia
You’re not as beautiful as she

Far from the music alone in the night
Under a vaudeville moon
Miss Alabama has entered my life
And not a day too soon

Oh beautiful magnolia
You’re not as beautiful as she
Zelda, you’re dancing away with my heart
Now you’re a part of me