Lyrics

VERSE 1

The time was in June,

The bees humm’d a tune

The perfume of rose fill’d the air,

When just o’er the way,

Sat a baby one day,

All alone and no one seem’d to care,

But one passer by,

Turn’d and look’d with a sigh,

At the tears and the eyes swollen red,

Then close to her breast,

The young darling she press’d,

And tenderly to her she said.

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Won’t you come over to my house,

Won’t you come over and play,

I’ve lots of playthings, a dolly or two

We live in the house ‘cross the way,

I’ll give you candy and sweet things,

I’ll put your hair in a curl,

Won’t you come over to my house,

And play that you’r my little girl.

VERSE 2

Perhaps you don’t know,

That not long ago,

These toys I am giving to you,

Were my little girl’s,

Yes, my own little Pearl’s,

And her eyes were like yours, large and blue,

But one night I found,

That the angels came ‘round,

And they took her way up to the sky,

So don’t stay away,

But come over each day,

Or you’ll make your new Mama cry.

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