From the musical “Mr. President”, 1962
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Pigtails and freckles, braces on your teeth
Who would have thought you would turn out so beautiful
Awkward and bashful, scared right from the start
Who would have thought you would turn out so smart
Changes, many changes, since I first looked at you,
Funny, very funny, what a few years can do
Pigtails and freckles, braces on your teeth
Who would have thought they’d become so sublime
I would have thought, for I thought so all the time
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: