From the musical “Toot Toot”, 1917
Words by Berton Braley
Music by Jerome Kern
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Let me knit and purl for you
Make my busy needles twirl for you
Knitting caps and sox for you
Fitting up a comfort box for you
It would seem like home to be
In this birch tee-pee
If you’d let me knit and purl for you
It would be a joy to me
Refrain
I will knit a suit o’ dreams
To be love’s uniform
In a garb of golden gleams
I’ll wrap him safe and warm
When that task is done
I will knit our hearts in one
To guard them from every storm
I will knit a suit o’ dreams
To be love’s uniform
- Every lass is knitting, now
With her shining needles flitting now
While her lover fares to war
She is knitting things he wears to war
Every knot and every skein
Tells her love again
Every little lass is knitting now
Humming in a minor strain