If I can't Sing About My Mammy - 1924 - Talbot O'Farrell

Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 23 Sept 2001

Ev'ry time I sing of Mammy,
why do people always sneer?
They claim that Mammy sounds mammypammy,
but let me say right here:

If I can't sing about my mammy,
I don't want to sing at all;
I'm gonna cling to mammy,
like I did when I was small.
Shout her praise for her days
may be numbered and few;
Let her smile for a while,
it's the least you can do.
If I can't sing about my mammy,
I don't want to sing at all.

If I can't sing about my mammy,
I don't want to sing at all;
I'm gonna cling to mammy,
like I did when I was small.
Shout her praise for her days
may be numbered and few;
Let her smile for a while,
it's the least you can do.
If I can't sing about my mammy,
I don't want to sing at all.

What's the first song you remember,
ain't it mammy's lullaby?
Each note so weepy to make you sleepy,
it kinda makes me cry:

If I can't sing about my mammy,
I don't want to sing at all;
I'm gonna cling to mammy,
like I did when I was small.
Shout her praise for her days
may be numbered and few;
Let her smile for a while,
it's the least you can do.
If I can't sing about my mammy,
I don't want to sing at all.

If I can't sing about my mammy,
I don't want to sing at all;
I'm gonna cling to mammy,
like I did when I was small.
Shout her praise for her days
may be numbered and few;
Let her smile for a while,
it's the least you can do.
If I can't sing about my mammy,
I don't want to sing at all.

Where was it I read,
who was it who said:
"Throw me in the deepest sea,
cover me with years,
and my mammy's tears
would come floating down to me?"
Haven't you that poem,
somewhere in your home,
just as dusty as can be?
Pick it up and read,
that is all you need,
and you'll be shouting just like me.

If I can't sing about my mammy,
I don't want to sing at all;
I'm gonna cling to mammy,
like I did when I was small.
Shout her praise for her days
may be numbered and few;
Let her smile for a while,
it's the least you can do.
If I can't sing about my mammy,
I don't want to sing at all.

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If I Can't Sing About My Mammy 1924 Talbot O'Farrell

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If I Can't Sing About My Mammy 1924 Talbot O'Farrell
Music by Con Conrad
Words by Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young
© 1924 Waterson, Berlin, and Snyder Co., New York
B. Feldman and Co. London
sequenced for Piano and orchestra by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
in association with Doug Grierson
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© James Pitt-Payne, London UK, 2001
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