From a production founded on “Little Nemo”, 1908.
Words by Harry B. Smith.
Music by Victor Herbert.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- One day my mother gave a dinner
My! but that was grand
My Pa and Ma they both just put on
Style to beat the Band
As things was getting dull
I thought I’d entertain ’em some
So I speaks up and says, “Say
You just bet I’m glad to come
At last we’ve got enough to eat
I wish you’d come to stay
We’ve lived on eggs and breakfast feed
Since last Thanksgivings day
Them strawberries is ornaments
You ain’t supposed to touch
I wonder why Ma sent me out
I guess I talked too much - My Papa has a dear old friend
As bald as he can be
He calls at our house often
And he thinks a lot of me
My little baby brother
Has no hair upon his head
So one day to this gentleman
I innocently said
“Say you and baby looks alike
You neither got no hair
If you’re his papa, tell us”
Say you ought to see him stare
Then ev’ryone looked funny
But my Pa, and he looked blue
I wonder if I talk too much
I guess maybe I do