a 1906 tear jerker
words by Harry H. Williams
music by Egbert Van Alstyne
The sheet music:
Accompaniment track:
Lyrics
1. The time was in June
The bees humm’d a tune
The perfume of rose fill’d the air
When just o’er the way
Sat a baby one day
All alone and so one one seem’d to care
But one passer by
Turn’d and look’d with a sigh
At the tears and the eyes swollen red
Then close to her breast
The young darling she press’d
And tenderly to her she said
Chorus
Won’t you come over to my house
Won’t you come over and play
I’ve lots of playthings, a dolly or two
We live in the house ‘cross the way
I’ll give you candy and sweet things
I’ll put your hair in a curl
Won’t you come over to my house
And play that you’re my little girl
2. Perhaps you don’t know
That not long ago
These toys I am giving to you
Were my little girls
Yes, my one little Pearl’s
And her eyes were like yours, large and blue
But one night I found
That the angels came ’round
And they took her way up to the sky
So don’t stay away
But come over each day
Or you’ll make your new Mama cry
Sung here by Fred Feild: