What Money Can't Buy 1915

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 29 June 2011
2011

While sitting in my home one eve,
When busy toil was o'er
I scanned a paper filled with news,
and bargains by the score.
It teemed with treasures wealth could own
alluring to the eye
But as I mused I thought of things
that money cannot buy.

The touch of a mother's gentle hand
the voice of a father's kind command,
The grasp of a friend,
or a baby's smile,
or a happy conscience all the while,
A wife who clings when things go wrong
and smiles tho' her heart may cry,
Or a true woman's honour,
more dear than life;
Are the things no money can buy.

I laid my paper down and strolled
out in the bright lit street,
and 'mid the throngs that passed me by
a friend I chanced to meet.
"What is it, Jack," I asked of him,
"that money cannot buy?"
"A woman's love," he quickly cried,
"Not that alone," said I.

The touch of a mother's gentle hand
the voice of a father's kind command,
The grasp of a friend,
or a baby's smile,
or a happy conscience all the while,
A wife who clings when things go wrong
and smiles tho' her heart may cry,
Or a true woman's honour,
more dear than life;
Are the things no money can buy.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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What Money Can't Buy 1915
Sung by Eva Tanguay
Music by Arthur Lange
Lyrics by Monroe H.Rosenfeld
© 1915 by The Joe Morris Music Co.  N.Y.
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sequence and Karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 29 June 2011 at 15.56
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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