A popular song from 1900
Words by Arthur J. Lamb
Music by Harry Von Tilzer
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Denese Coulbeck:
Lyrics
- “Kiss me goodnight mother darling
Why are you sad tonight?
Soon I will dance with the man I love
In the ballroom so bright”
Fondly her mother embraced her
Saying “My dear do not go
I have warned you against his love
And now dear, my reason you’ll know
Chorus
Think of the spider a man so false
And the fly a maiden fair
Think of him leading her step by step
Into his cruel snare
Think of a love that is worse than hate
Don’t let the lesson go by
But stop ere too late, and don’t share the fate
Of the spider and the fly
- Roaming alone thro’ the city
Just at the twilight’s fall
Left all alone by the man she wed
Whom she’d loved best of all
Clasping her baby still closer
Weeping she now bows her head
As she kneels by her mother’s grave
And thinks of the words that she said
Sung here by Vancha March: