Daddy : song / music by A.H. Behrend words by Mary Mark Lemon

VERSE 01: Take my head on your should, Daddy/Turn your face to the west,/It is just the hour when the sky turns gold,/The hour that mother loves best./The day has been long without you, Daddy,/You've been such a while away,/And now you're tired of your work, Daddy,/as I am tir'd of my play;/But I've got you and you've got me,/So everything seems right;/I wonder if mother is thinking of us,Because it is my birthday night!VERSE 02: Why do your big tears fall, Daddy?/Mother's not far away,/I often seem to hear her voice falling across my play,/And it sometimes makes me cry, Daddy,/To think its none of it true,/Till I fall asleep to dream, Daddy,/of home, and mother and you./For I've got you, and you've got me,/So everything must go,/We're all the world to each other, Daddy,/For mother, dear mother once told me so.VERSE 03: I'm sometimes afraid to think, Daddy,/when I am big like you,/And you are old and grey, Daddy,/What you and I would do/If, when we got up to heaven,/And mother was waiting there,/She shouldn't remember the two she left,/So sad and so lonely here!/But year by year still sees no change,/And so 'twill all be right,/We shall always meet her in our dreams,/Daddy, goodnight, Daddy good night,/Dear Daddy, dear Daddy, goodnight, goodnight