(And Change It Back To Blue)
A WWI song from 1918
Words by Marion Phelps
Music by Clarence Brandon
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- She was just a dimpled baby
Yet a troubled look she wore
As one tiny finger pointed
To a flag above the door
“‘Twas a blue star there for daddy”
So the lisping accents told
But they said an angel came last night
And turned the blue to gold
Chorus:
The gold star shines the brightest
But it makes my mamma sad
I’m sure if my dear daddy knew
He’d want us to be glad
Oh, angel won’t you please come back
And bring my daddy, too
And please touch daddy’s star again
And change it back to blue
- Just a soldier’s lonely baby
With a troubled look of care
Do the angels weep, I wonder
When they hear that baby’s prayer?
Won’t you please bring back my daddy
My dear daddy kind and true
Won’t you take away the star of gold?
I’d rather have the blue
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: