Daddy - 19th Century

James Pitt-Payne, London and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia - 05 Feb 2002

Take my head on your shoulder, Daddy
Turn your face to the west,
It is just the hour when the sky turns gold,
The hour that mother loves best.
The day has been long without you, Daddy,
You've been such a while away.
And now you're as tir'd of your work, Daddy,
As I am tir'd of my play;
But I've got you, and you've got me,
So ev'ry thing seems right
I wonder if mother is thinking of us,
Because it is my birthday night!
Why do your big tears fall, Daddy?
Mother's not far away,
I often seem to hear her voice
falling across my play,
And it sometimes makes me cry, Daddy,
To think it's none of it true,
Till I fall asleep, to dream, Daddy,
Of home, and mother and you
For I've got you, and you've got me,
So ev'ry thing may go,
We're all the world to each other, Daddy,
For mother, dear mother once told me so.
I'm sometimes afraid to think, Daddy,
When I am big like you,
And you are old and grey, Daddy,
What you and I would do,
If, when we got up to Heaven,
And mother was waiting there,
She shouldn't remember the two she left,
So sad and so lonely here.
But year, by year, still sees no change,
And so 'twill all be right,
We shall always meet her in our dreams,
Daddy, good night, Daddy, good night,
Dear Daddy, dear Daddy, good night,
Good night.

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Daddy - 19C
Musivc by A. H. Behren
Lyric by Mary Mark Lemon
out of copyright
sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed Tuesday 05 Feb 2002 at 14.04
in association with Doug Grierson
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