At Seven, Seventeen and Seventy

(Daddy Loved the Same Sweet Girl)
A popular song from 1917
Words by Raymond Egan
Music by Abe Olman

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The sheet music:

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Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:

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Lyrics

1. My daddy had three sweethearts
   And he loves them all today
   Within his heart are pictures of the three
   One’s a child of seven
   One’s a maid of seventeen
   The third is mother just turned seventy
   Now daddy loves my mother
   And the girls that used to be
   For they are all the same sweet girl, you see

Chorus
For at seven, seventeen and seventy
Daddy loved the same sweet girl
At seven she was the little girlie next door
The girlie he’d rob the apple orchard for
And at seventeen she was a wonderful dream
How she set his heart a-whirl
And at seventy he loves the memory
Of the beautiful girl who used to be
For at seven, seventeen and seventy
Daddy loved the same sweet girl

2. I keep the faded tintypes
   Of these girls of long ago
   Beside the picture of my mother dear
   These three pictures tell me
   Of a love so wonderful
   A love that cheered my daddy year by year
   But daddy is a lucky man
   When all is said and done
   To capture three such loving hearts in one

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