Little Rover 1923

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 29 May 2009
2009

Good advice is easy to give
but seems mighty hard to take,
Most of us must learn while we live
and still make the same mistake,
I'm recalling words of wisdom
and they came from a silver lady
in a golden frame,
thru' the years
I learned them somehow
and I understand them now.

Little Rover, think it over,
don't forget to come back home,
fly away, you're longing to go
fly away, and some day you'll know.
Eastward, Westward,
home's the best word,
when you're blue and all alone,
Oh! the sheep's in the meadow,
the cow's in the corn,
and can't you hear the rooster
telling you ev'ry morn
Little Rover, just rove all over,
but don't forget to come back home.

Little Rover, think it over,
don't forget to come back home,
fly away, you're longing to go
fly away, and some day you'll know.
Eastward, Westward,
home's the best word,
when you're blue and all alone,
Oh! the sheep's in the meadow,
the cow's in the corn,
and can't you hear the rooster
telling you ev'ry morn
Little Rover, just rove all over,
but don't forget to come back home.

Don't know why it took me so long
to learn what I know tonight,
Don't know why I just went all wrong
before I could see the right,
but somehow the lessons
learned at mother's knee
after all the years and tears
came back to me,
I can see her there by the door
just telling me o'er and o'er.

Little Rover, think it over,
don't forget to come back home,
fly away, you're longing to go
fly away, and some day you'll know.
Eastward, Westward,
home's the best word,
when you're blue and all alone,
Oh! the sheep's in the meadow,
the cow's in the corn,
and can't you hear the rooster
telling you ev'ry morn
Little Rover, just rove all over,
but don't forget to come back home.

Little Rover, think it over,
don't forget to come back home,
fly away, you're longing to go
fly away, and some day you'll know.
Eastward, Westward,
home's the best word,
when you're blue and all alone,
Oh! the sheep's in the meadow,
the cow's in the corn,
and can't you hear the rooster
telling you ev'ry morn
Little Rover, just rove all over,
but don't forget to come back home.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Little Rover 1923
dedicated to Elaine Bohn
Music by Walter Donaldson
Lyrics by Gus Kahn
© MCMXXIII by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.Inc. - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 29 May 2009 at 16.07
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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