Toyland 1903 "Babes In Toyland"

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 19 Aug 2007
2007

When you've grown up my dears
and are as old as I
you'll often ponder on the years
that roll so swiftly by
My dears, that roll so swiftly by
and of the many lands
you will have journeyed through
you'll oft recall the best of all
the land your childhood knew!
Your childhood knew.

Toyland! Toyland!
Little girl and boy land
while you dwell within it
you are ever happy then,
Childhood's joyland
mystic merry Toyland
once you pass its borders
you can ne'er return again.

When you've grown up my dears
there comes that dreary day
when 'mid the locks of black appears
the first pale gleam of grey,
My dears, the first pale gleam of grey,
then of the past you'll dream
as grey haired grown ups do
and seek once more its phantom shore
the land your childhood knew!
Your childhood knew.

Toyland! Toyland!
Little girl and boy land
while you dwell within it
you are ever happy then,
Childhood's joyland
mystic merry Toyland
once you pass its borders
you can ne'er return again.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Toyland 1903
from "Babes In Toyland"
Music by Victor Herbert
Lyrics by Glen MacDonough
© MCMIII by M.Witmark & Sons
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 19 August 2007 at 5.23pm
in association with Doug Grierson
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