(When I was a Kid so High)
A popular song from 1906
Words by Will D. Cobb
Music by Gus Edwards
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- So, that is your new Sunday bonnet?
Well, Sue, it’s becoming to you
With those wonderful things you have on it
You’ll make them “some jealous,” dear Sue
But somehow it sets me to dreaming
Of the day we first said, “Howdy-do”
And I see you once more, in the bonnet you wore
When I nicknamed you “Sunbonnet Sue”
Chorus
Sunbonnet Sue, Sunbonnet Sue
Sunshine and roses ran second to you
You looked so nice, I kissed you twice
Under your sunbonnet blue
It was only a kind of a “kid kiss”
But it tasted lots nicer than pie
And the next thing I knew
I was dead stuck on you
When I was a kid so high
- So, that is your new Sunday bonnet?
Well, Sue, I must “hand it to you”
It’s a dream, and the day that you don it
They’ll take them “some notice,” dear Sue
But though it’s a crown for a queen, dear
In my heart there’s a soft spot or two
For the knot that I tied, that tied my heart inside
When I tied your old Sunbonnet Sue
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: