Ev'ry Baby Is A Sweet Bouquet 1909

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 01 Jan 2004

In a summer garden any posy grow,
Mignonette and violets
Lily white and rose,
But there's not a posy in the world at all,
Half as fair or half so rare as one baby small.
Half so fair or half so rare as one baby small.

Your eyes are like the violets, my baby boy,
Your cheeks are just as blushing as the rose;
Your skin is lily white,
oh, you're such a pretty sight
from your forehead to your dimpled little toes.
Your hands are tiny flower petals, baby boy,
You seem to grow far sweeter ev'ry day;
Ev'ry time you smile that way,
then I just can't help but say:
"Ev'ry baby is a sweet bouquet."

Your eyes are like the violets, my baby boy,
Your cheeks are just as blushing as the rose;
Your skin is lily white,
oh, you're such a pretty sight
from your forehead to your dimpled little toes.
Your hands are tiny flower petals, baby boy,
You seem to grow far sweeter ev'ry day;
Ev'ry time you smile that way,
then I just can't help but say:
"Ev'ry baby is a sweet bouquet."

When the sun is rising in the morning hours,
then the birds sing sweetest,
calling to the flowers,
And the flow'rlets open smiling all day long,
Baby smile and coo away
while I sing my song.
Baby smile and coo away
while I sing my song.

Your eyes are like the violets, my baby boy,
Your cheeks are just as blushing as the rose;
Your skin is lily white,
oh, you're such a pretty sight
from your forehead to your dimpled little toes.
Your hands are tiny flower petals, baby boy,
You seem to grow far sweeter ev'ry day;
Ev'ry time you smile that way,
then I just can't help but say:
"Ev'ry baby is a sweet bouquet."

Your eyes are like the violets, my baby boy,
Your cheeks are just as blushing as the rose;
Your skin is lily white,
oh, you're such a pretty sight
from your forehead to your dimpled little toes.
Your hands are tiny flower petals, baby boy,
You seem to grow far sweeter ev'ry day;
Ev'ry time you smile that way,
then I just can't help but say:
"Ev'ry baby is a sweet bouquet."

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Ev'ry Baby Is A Sweet Bouquet 1909
Music by John W. Bratton
Lyrics by Paul West
copyright MCMIX by M. Witmark and Sons
sequence and karaoke  by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 01 January 2004 at 21.50
in association with Doug Grierson
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Leffler-Bratton Company present
"The Newlyweds and Their Baby" 1909
A comedy with music founded on the cartoons
by Geo. McManus
by arrangement with The New York World.
Book by Aaron Hoffman and Paul West
Lyrics and Music by A. Seymour Brown, Nat D. Ayer
and John W. Bratton
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