A popular march song from 1908
Words by Alfred Bryan
Music by Kerry Mills
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
1. When a boy I always tried to reach
On the tree the very highest peach
I thought the peach I couldn’t reach
The sweetest ever seen
When I fell in love at twenty-one
I found out like every mother’s son
The peach that was the sweetest
Was the peach of sweet sixteen
Chorus:
Sweet Sixteens, dark or fair
Eyes brown or blue,
Sweet Sixteens, debonair
Shy, haughty too
Girlies with roguish eyes
Girls that are queens
Those airy, fairy, laughing
Merry, cherry Sweet Sixteens
2. Sunday afternoons along the beach
If you chance to spy a blushing peach
You best beware, you best take care
If she but smiles on you
There is mischief in her baby stare
Pretty peeping eyes, and dimples fair
You don’t know why you love her
But you know you do, you do