A 1904 popular song.
Words by Alfred Bryan.
Music by Harry Von Tilzer.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by Halcyon Days Music:
Lyrics
- “Mama” sighs a lad, “I’m lonely
Since our baby’s gone away”
As he looks toward a mansion
Where some children are at play
“Can’t I have a little sister
Tell me ain’t there any more?”
Mamma hides her tears and answers
“Yes, dear, at the baby store”
“‘Cause we’re poor I have no playmates”
Says the lad with tear-dimmed eyes
“Someone there will surely love me”
Then he drops his toys and sighs
Refrain
“Down at the baby store
Down at the baby store
I’ll find a girlie that looks like you
Nice golden hair and sweet eyes of blue
I’ll bring her home to stay
With me she’ll always play
There’s one I am sure
Who’ll love me though I’m poor
Down at the baby store”
- By an orphan home he pauses
Sees the children round the door
In a childish voice he whispers
“This must be the baby store”
Spies a lonesome little lassie
Golden hair and eyes of blue
Takes her by the hand to mamma
Says, “I’ve brought her home to you
For like me she’s poor and lonely
And her mamma dear is dead”
Then he puts his arms around her
As with childish pride he said
Sung here by Vancha March: