a 1922 popular song
words by Paul Hummel
music by George Graff Jr.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- One little miss sits on her daddy’s knee
She looks at his downcast eye
Asks, “Daddy, why is it you pity me
And when I say Mama, you always sigh?
Won’t she come back to us bye and bye?
Tell me, daddy, why is it you cry?”
Chorus
She’s just like the last rose of summer
She already has faded and gone
She wandered away in the bloom of the summer
With never a thought for her own little one
And if the summers are ever so long
We can’t bring back the dear days that were
For she’s just like the last rose of summer
And there’s no rose can be just like her
- And as her daddy takes her in his arms
He looks at the child and sighs
“Your mother was pretty and tender, too
And she was as pure as the soft blue skies
She is alone since she said goodbye
That’s why I pity, and why I cry”
Sung here by Fred Feild: