A hit from the film “Boy O’ Mine”, 1918
words by J. Keirn Brennan
music by Ernest R. Ball
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Oft when I’m lonely my memory swings
Back to your baby days
Feeling the joy that a baby brings
Out of God’s wond’rous ways
Seeming to hear the first pray’r that you said
Longing to tuck you in bed
There’s no one knows how I long for you now
Here with my arms outspread
Refrain
Boy of mine, boy of mine
Although my heart was breaking
I seemed to know you’d want to go
Pride in your manhood waking
I’ll be here, waiting, dear
Till at a glad dawn’s breaking
I’ll hear you say you’re home to stay
Dear little boy of mine
Dear little boy of mine
- Out of the mist of those wonderful years
I see your baby smile
Days when I kissed you and dried your tears
Seem such a little while
Hearing the words mother taught you to say
Watch you at your childish play
For always in dreams you’re with me it seems
Just as you’ll be some day