A popular song from 1904
Words by Edward Madden
Music by Theodore Morse
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Two little girls with two little curls
Were living side by side
One little maid each morning played
In a yard so grand and wide
But in the next house, as poor as a mouse
A child gazed longingly
‘Till one summer’s day
She heard a voice say
“Please come and play with me”
Chorus
“Please come and play in my yard
I’m all alone you see
Once I was poor like you are
Then Mama loved but me
Now she is always busy out in society
Please come and play in my yard
Nobody cares for me”
- Soon came a change
Dame Fortune grew strange
And from the rich child strayed
One year had passed, wealth came at last
To cheer the poor young maid
The poor little mouse, now lives in the house
The rich child used to own
And whispers each day
To her friend o’er the way
“Don’t leave me all alone”