#1239 - Pretty Baby

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• Composer:
  • Tony (Anthony or Antonio) Jackson (1876-1920) and Egbert Anson Van Alstyne

    • #1145 - In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
    • #1162 - Cheyenne
    • #1236 - Memories
    • #1239 - Pretty Baby

    (1878-1951), 1916
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• Incipit: 454565435571717153432
• Condensed Incipit: 45456543571717153432
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• Lyrics:
  You ask me why I'm always teasing you
  You hate to have me call you Pretty Baby
  I really thought that I was pleasing you
  For you're just a baby to me
  Your cunning little dimples and your baby stare
  Your baby talk and baby walk and curly hair
  Your baby smile
  Makes life worthwhile
  You're just as sweet as you can be
  
  chorus:
  Everybody loves a baby that's why I'm in love with you
  Pretty baby, pretty baby
  And I'd like to be your sister, brother, dad and mother too
  Pretty baby, pretty baby
  Won't you come and let me rock you in my cradle of love
  And we'll cuddle all the time
  Oh, I want a lovin' baby, and it might as well be you
  Pretty baby of mine
  
  Your mother said you were the cutest kid
  No wonder, Dearie, that I'm wild about you
  And all the cunning things you said and did
  Why, I love to fondly recall
  And just like Peter Pan it seems you'll always be
  The same sweet cunning little baby dear to me
  And that is why
  I'm sure that I
  Will always love you best of all
  
  
  • Gustav Gerson Kahn

    • #1177 - I Wish I Had a Girl
    • #1236 - Memories
    • #1239 - Pretty Baby
    • #1258 - Ain't we got Fun?

    (1886–1941), 1916