A popular song from 1925.
Words by Marshall Montgomery.
Music by Al. Piantadosi.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- What a friend, what a pal
Only now I can see
How you dreamed and you planned all for me
I never knew what a mother goes through
There’s nothing that you didn’t do
Chorus
Pal of my cradle days
I’ve needed you always
Since I was a baby upon your knee
You sacrificed ev’rything for me
I stole the gold from your hair
I put the silver threads there
I don’t know any way I could ever repay
Pal of my cradle days
- Greatest friend, dearest pal
It was me who caused you
Ev’ry sorrow and heartache you knew
Your face so fair I have wrinkled with care
I placed ev’ry line that is there
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: