1. Always In the Way
Please mister take me in your car
I want to see Mama.
They say she is in heaven,
is that very, very far?
My new Mama is very cross and
she does frown and say - you're always in the way.
My old Mama would never say, your always in the was.
Please mister take me in your car
I want to see Mama.
They say she is in heaven,
is it very, very far?
2. Dinner for One
Dinner for one please James.
Madam will not be dining.
Yes, you may bring the wine in.
Dinner for one please James.
3. Rubber Dolly
My mother told me
that she would buy me
a rubber dolly, if I were good.
But when I told her
I'd love a soldier,
She wouldn't buy me that rubber dolly.
4. My Bonnie
My Bonnie lies over the ocean.
My Bonnie lies over the sea.
My Bonnie lies over the ocean,
Oh bring back my Bonnie to me.
Bring back, bring back,
oh bring back my Bonnie to me, to me.
Bring back my Bonnie to me.
5. A Bicycle Built for Two
Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do.
I'm half crazy over the love of you.
It won't be a stylish marriage.
I can't afford a carriage.
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two.
6. Katie
K-k-k Katie, you know I love you.
You're the only g-g-g- girl that I adore.
When the m-m-m moon shines over the cowshed,
I'll be waiting at the k-k-k-kitchen door.
7. A Bird in a Gilded Cage (I had forgotten these snippets, but thanks to Nora Kerr here it is).
(Arthur J. Lamb and Harry Von Tilzer)
The ballroom was filled with fashion's throng,
It shone with a thousand lights;
And there was a woman who passed along,
The fairest of all the sights.
A girl to her lover then softly sighed,
"There's riches at her command."
"But she married for wealth, not for love," he cried!
"Though she lives in a mansion grand."
cho: "She's only a bird in a gilded cage,
A beautiful sight to see.
You may think she's happy and free from care,
She's not, though she seems to be.
'Tis sad when you think of her wasted life
For youth cannot mate with age;
And her beauty was sold for an old man's gold,
She's a bird in a gilded cage."
I stood in a churchyard just at eve,
When sunset adorned the west;
And looked at the people who'd come to grieve
For loved ones now laid at rcst.
A tall marble monument marked the grave
Of one who'd been fashion's queen;
And I thought, "She is happier here at rest,
Than to have people say when seen: "
RC
Add to Grandma's repertoire, the songs of Vera Lynn and some hymns like The Old Rugged Cross, and you get a good picture of my beloved grandma singing away as she did her chores followed around the house by her adoring grandchild.
How could anyone have been so lucky to have had not one, but two really interesting and loving grandmothers.
