In Memory of You Dear Old Pal

Everything has gone wrong and the nights are so long

Since you left us down here all alone

Everyday seems a year and the whole world is drear

It seems now I just can't go on.



Standing close by my side is our own little pride

He misses your lullaby tune

And his big dark blue eyes swell with tears as he cries

Wont Mummy come back to us soon?



I planted sweet lilies for you dear of

One on your grave neath the pines in the dawn

And our baby each day kneeled with me as I prayed

In memry of you dear old pal.



The angels will love you and keep you

I know, 'cause they needed some one just like you

To brighten the heaven around God's great throne

And add a new star to the blue.



I'll watch 'er the baby and tend him with care

And each night by his bedside I'll kneel

And if tears do not stop me I'll sing him to sleep

In mem'ry of you dear old pal.



All your big stakes and treasures I placed them away

To me they mean more than a world

And the baby's first curl to your picture I've tend

In mem'ry of you dear old pal...