A 1916 popular song.
Words by Joe Goodwin and Ed. Rose.
Music by Albert Piantadosi.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Imagine the love of a child for its toys
The love of a bird for its mate
Imagine the love of a miser for gold
Then imagine a love twice as great
If you multiply each love a million times o’er
It won’t be half the love that a mother has for
Chorus
Baby shoes, baby shoes
Mother will never forget them
You have forgotten when your feet were bare
Mother remembers, she still has a pair of
Baby shoes, baby shoes
To keep them the world she’d refuse
If she had to choose, her life would lose
Before she’d part with her baby’s shoes
2. Alone in the attic she fondles those shoes
And wonders where her boy has gone
And over those shoes she is saying a pray’r
She is praying to keep him from harm
In her heart there is gladness, tho’ her eyes are wet
Ev’ry mother remembers, while you may forget
Sung here by Fred Feild: