A popular song from 1929
Words and music by Ernie Golden
Arranged by Jos. Nussbaum
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
A jolly little workman was making toys all day
So children could be happy
When they were all at play
One night when all was quiet
His daily work was done
In the shadows deep he fell fast asleep
As the toys woke one by one
Though it’s just in dreams, still to him it seems
That his toys have come to life
There’s a bugler boy blowing notes of joy
And a toy that blows a fife
Hear that big bass drum going “rum tum tum”
To the sound of tramping feet
See the toyman smile as the rank and file
Come a-marching up the street
All the toys play on till the break of dawn
Though they’re made of wood and clay
Ev’ry one is there and they do their share
To make whoopee and be gay
When the clock strikes five they can’t be alive
So they scramble for themselves
And the toyman wakes and shivers and shakes
As he sees them on the shelves
There’s lions, camels, tigers
An elephant or two
Just hear that great big rooster
Sing “cock-a-doo-dle-doo”
And dear old Mother Hubbard
Who found her cupboard bare
And Santa Claus who’s here because
He has some toys to share
There’s battleships and cruisers
And big electric trains
The skyway up above him
Is filled with aeroplanes
Right in his little workshop
He made them all it’s true
Attention! Attention!
Get ready for review
There’s lions, camels, tigers
An elephant or two
Just hear that great big rooster
Sing “cock-a-doo-dle-doo”
And dear old Mother Hubbard
Who found her cupboard bare
And Santa Claus who’s here because
He has some toys to share
There’s battleships and cruisers
And big electric trains
The skyway up above him
Is filled with aeroplanes
Right in his little workshop
He made them all himself
Attention! Attention!
March back upon the shelf
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: