A popular song from 1920
Words by Bernie Grossman
Music by Billy Frisch
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. Boys as a rule, when they’re going to school
Are considered unruly and bad
They pull the curls of nice little girls
For that is the way of a lad
But I knew a sunny face tousled hair tot
Who always was known as the best in the lot
Chorus:
Buddy he was everybody’s Buddy
From the time he was a kid
He’d get the coal, chop the wood
He’d even run errands for the neighborhood
Buddy, he would help the kids to study
He was everybody’s friend
One day the angels in the heavens above
Found out they needed someone up there to love
They called for Buddy, our Buddy
I wish they’d send him home again
2. Never would fight till he knew he was right
But he always would stick to the end
Wasn’t stuck up ev’ry homeless young pup
Could tell that this boy was their friend
A good natured comrade a regular boy
In sunshine or rain just a bundle of joy