I Used To Call Her Baby 1919

byJames Pitt-Payne, London UK - 3 Nov 2009
2009

My father was a widower
and we lived all alone,
with no one in our home
that we could call our own,
but sad to state
I grew to hate
that weary, dreary life,
Made up my mind
I'd go and find
a loving little wife.
I met a little dear
and courted her a year
and Oh! what pretty things
I used to whisper in her ear.

I used to call her Baby
she seemed like a Baby to me,
When she said that we should wed
you bet I was glad,
Then I took her home
abd introduced her to Dad,
That's when I lost my Baby
for Dad had coin you see,
She never even stopped to say "TaTa"
Next day she turned around and married Pa,
and just to think I used to call her Baby,
and now she's a mother to me.

I used to call her Baby
but since she's my mother, oh see!
Any time she comes along
and sits on my knee,
she don't seem to have
the same attraction for me,
To think she was my Baby,
it's got me up a tree,
Now when my evening prayers
have all been said
She always tucks me
in my little bed,
and just to think I used
to call her Baby,
and now she's a mother to me.

To think that after all these years
so free from care and strife,
I'd change my plan of life
and try to grab a wife,
I thought that she'd be company,
but now I plainly see,
that she is better company
for Daddy than for me.
The way she made me feel
it seems it can't be real,
but just the same
I realize I got an awful deal.

I used to call her Baby
she seemed like a Baby to me,
When she said that we should wed
you bet I was glad,
Then I took her home
abd introduced her to Dad,
That's when I lost my Baby
for Dad had coin you see,
She never even stopped to say "TaTa"
Next day she turned around and married Pa,
and just to think I used to call her Baby,
and now she's a mother to me.

I used to call her Baby
but since she's my mother, oh see!
Any time she comes along
and sits on my knee,
she don't seem to have
the same attraction for me,
To think she was my Baby,
it's got me up a tree,
Now when my evening prayers
have all been said
She always tucks me
in my little bed,
and just to think I used
to call her Baby,
and now she's a mother to me.

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I Used To Call Her Baby 1919
by Howard Johnson, Murray Roth & Cliff Hess
© MCMXIX by Leo Feist Inc. - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 3 November 2009 at 17.16
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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