A popular song from 1917.
Words by Walter H. Brown.
Music by H. T. Burleigh.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Sometimes in the hush of the evening hour
When shadows creep from the west
I think of the twilight songs you sang
And the boy you lull’d to rest
The wee little boy with tousled head
That long, long ago was thine
I wonder if sometimes you long for that boy
O little mother of mine
And now he has come to man’s estate
Grown stalwart in body and strong
You’d hardly know that he was the lad
You lull’d with your slumber song
The years have alter’d the form and the life
But the heart is unchang’d by time
And still he is only your boy as of old
O little mother of mine
O little mother of mine