A popular song from 1911.
Words by Robert F. Roden.
Music by Henry H. Petrie.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Near a rich man’s costly mansion
Stood a poor man’s home so plain
And their children played together
In the flower scented lane
But the rich girl’s tear-stained message
Made the poor boy sad one day
For it said, “Good-Bye dear Jimmie
‘Cause you’re poor, we cannot play”
Refrain
For a poor little boy loved a rich little girl
And she loved him, too, they say
And the rich little girl and the poor little boy
Together so gaily would play
But her mother said, “No play with poor boys no more”
And two hearts were sad that day
For a poor little boy loved a rich little girl
And she loved him, too, they say
- As the years rolled onward
Fortune made the boy a millionaire
And the girl’s fate, too was altered
She lives in no mansion fair
But one day there came letter
From the boy who lived next door
Saying “Come to me, I love you
As I did in days of yore”
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: