Tom: G
Introdução:
G C G
“Now I can't wait on, baby”, the smiling merchant said,
D
as he stooped and softly toyed with his golden curly head.
G C G
“I want to call up mamma”, came the answer full and free,
D G
“will you telephone and ask her when she's coming back to me.”
G C G
“My child”, the merchant murmured as he stroked the anxious brow,
D
“no telephone connection, where your mother lives at now.”
G G7 C G
“No telephone in heaven?” and a tear sprang in her eyes.
D G
“I thought God had everything with him up in the sky.”
G C G
“Tell her that I get so lonesome, that I don't know what to do,
D
and papa cries so much I guess, he must be lonesome too.
G C G
Tell her to come to baby, 'cause at night I get so 'fraid,
D G
with no one there to kiss me, when the lights begin to fade.”
G C G
“My child”, the merchant murmured as he stroked the anxious brow,
D
“no telephone connection, where your mother lives at now.”
G G7 C G
“No telephone in heaven?” and a tear sprang in her eyes.
D G
“I thought God had everything with him up in the sky.”
G C G
All through the day I want her since my dolly's got so sore,
D
with the awful punching brother give it with his little sword.
G C G
There ain’t no one to fix it since mamma's gone away,
D G
and poor little lonesome dolly's getting thinner every day.
G C G
“My child”, the merchant murmured as he stroked the anxious brow,
D
“no telephone connection, where your mother lives at now.”
G G7 C G
“No telephone in heaven?” and a tear sprang in her eyes.
D G D G
“I thought God had everything with him up in the sky.”