a 1922 popular song
words by Phil Ponce
melody by Edna Gladstone
arranged by Ed. Smalle
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- What made your mother so happy at night
Busy with needle and thread?
What made her smile and made living worthwhile
After she put you to bed?
Chorus
Your baby clothes, ribbons and bows
Dearest of treasures to mother
Tattered and torn, ragged and worn
To her breast she pressed them
They were blessed when she caressed them
White wooly hose covered your toes
Mittens your ten tiny fingers
No earthly gem, rivals the hem
Mother sews on your first baby clothes
- See all those tiny things out on the line
They make a wonderful sight
What do they mean as they hang there so clean
Spotless and all snowy white?
Sung here by Fred Feild: