Sweet Sixteens 1908

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 03 Sep 2005

When a boy I always tried to reach
on the tree the very highest peach;
I thought the peach I couldn't reach
the sweetest ever seen;
When I fell in love at twenty one
I found out like ev'ry mother's son,
the peach that was the sweetest
was the peach of sweet sixteen.

Sweet sixteens, dark or fair,
eyes brown or blue,
sweet sixteens, debonair,
shy, haughty, too;
Girlies with roguish eyes,
girls that are queens,
those airy, fairy, laughing, merry,
cherry sweet sixteens.

Sweet sixteens, dark or fair,
eyes brown or blue,
sweet sixteens, debonair,
shy, haughty, too;
Girlies with roguish eyes,
girls that are queens,
those airy, fairy, laughing, merry,
cherry sweet sixteens.

Sunday afternoons along the beach
if you chance to spy a blushing peach,
you best beware, you best take care
if she but smiles on you;
there is mischief in her baby stare,
pretty peeping eyes,
and dimples fair,
you don't know why you love her
but you know you do, you do.

Sweet sixteens, dark or fair,
eyes brown or blue,
sweet sixteens, debonair,
shy, haughty, too;
Girlies with roguish eyes,
girls that are queens,
those airy, fairy, laughing, merry,
cherry sweet sixteens.

Sweet sixteens, dark or fair,
eyes brown or blue,
sweet sixteens, debonair,
shy, haughty, too;
Girlies with roguish eyes,
girls that are queens,
those airy, fairy, laughing, merry,
cherry sweet sixteens.

Soft karaoke
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Sweet Sixteens 1908
Music by Kerry Mills
Lyrics by Alfred Bryan
© 1908 by F. A. Mills, New York
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 03 September 2005 at 20.59
in association with Doug Grierson
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