(“Shrine Daddy”)
A popular song from 1930.
Words and music by L. A. Kebbon.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Up on the hill there’s a Temple
Beaming with baby smiles
Sweet little faces just sparkling with glee
Shrine Babies all to you and to me
Gee! it’s a wonderful feeling
Something that’s well worth while
So let’s do our share to drive away care
From our Temple of Baby Smiles
Chorus
Shrine Daddy, Shrine Daddy
Sunshine and joy for each girl and boy
Ev’ry little kiddie is both yours and mine
Ev’ry Shriner’s Temple should have a baby shrine
In thoughts we are always together
Tho’ parted by miles and miles
‘Tis certain that we will Shrine Daddies be
In our Temple of Baby Smiles
- Time, in its steady march onward
Carries us in its train
May we look back with a proud memory
Babies made glad thru you and thru me
May we be always Shrine Daddies
Living a life worth while
And when you are blue a trip will cure you
To our Temple of Baby Smiles