Let Us Build A Little Nest 1912 "Head Over Heels"

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 3 Aug 2007
2007

[Mitzi:] Let us play
the game of hide and seek,
if you promise me
that you will not peek,
and I will do the hiding.
[Kids:] Tell us first
where you'll be hiding.
[Mitzi:] That's not fair
for cheating is a shame,
we will have to play
some other game.
[Girl:] What it's name?
[Boy:] What's it's name?
[Mitzi:] It's a game
where we can hug and kiss.
[Boy:] Me for this.
[Girl:] Oh what bliss.
[Mitzi:] it's a game too good to miss,
I Played it years and years ago,
with someone whom I used to know.

Let us build a little nest
while we're here together,
like little birdies do.
When April skies are blue
we can snuggle up and rest
in the wint'ry weather
and if we're good
as little birdies should be
then maybe we can have a family.

[Mitzi:] Let's pretend now
that it's late at night,
and then I come in and turn out your light,
'cause I am Mister Sandman.
[Kids:] Ain't never was no Sandman.
[Mitzi:] Then I'll tuck you
in your trundle bed,
and like dear mama kiss each sleepy head.
[Girl:] Who said?
[Boy:] Sleepy head.
[Mitzi:] If you Ma should spank you
would you cry?
[Boy:] Bet your life,
[Girl:] Bet your life
[Mitzi:] and believe me so would I,
Of all the games I like one best,
The one where we can build a nest.

Let us build a little nest
while we're here together,
like little birdies do.
When April skies are blue
we can snuggle up and rest
in the wint'ry weather
and if we're good
as little birdies should be
then maybe we can have a family.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Let Us Build A Little Nest 1912 Kern
Music by Jerome Kern
Lyrics by Jerome Kern & Edgar Allan Woolf
© MCMXII by T.B.Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter  N.Y.
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from "Head Over Heels"
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 3 Aug 2007 at 3.58pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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