The Cock-a-Doodle-Doo song, 1911. A rural march ballad.
Words and music by Armstrong & Clark.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- In a little shady nook
Close beside a babbling brook
Sat a lonesome lad just at the close of day
While the sun was sinking down
As from fields of golden brown
The breezes wafted scent of new-mown hay
Then his thoughts began to roam
To a little cottage home
And of a girl he hoped to see ere long
Soon he started on his way
With a heart so light and gay
As to himself he softly crooned this song
Chorus
“Driving home the cows from pasture
At the closing of the day
Dell and I and Rover
Drove them through the fields of clover
After we got through with raking hay
Then when supper was all over
And with the milking we were through
We’d go to our little beds
After all our prayers were said
And sleep till we heard ‘Cock-a-doodle-doo”
- Many years have passed away
And the coupld old and gray
On that same old country farm live happily
In the evening all alone
They sit in their little home
And talk of days fresh in their memory
They can see that shady nook
And the same old babbling brook
They can see themselves just as they used to be
‘Round his dear old sweethearts’ waist
Then his arm he gently placed
And sings this same old strain so joyously