Question: is edelweiss a real song?
Answer: "Edelweiss" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. It is named after the edelweiss, a white flower found high in the Alps (Leontopodium nivale). ... It was the last song ever written by Oscar Hammerstein II, prior to his death in August 1960.