Scarlet Ribbons

(Jack O. Segal - Evelyn Danzing)

Jeannie Bare



I peeked in to say goodnight

And I heard my child in prayer

Send to me some scarlet ribbons

Scarlet ribbons for her hair.



All the stores were closed and shuttered

All the streets were dark and bare

In our town no scarlet ribbons

Scarlet ribbons for her hair.



Through the night

My heart was aching

Just before

The dawn was breaking.



I peeked in and on her bed

In great profusion laying there

Lovely ribbons, scarlet ribbons

Scarlet ribbons for her hair.



If I live to be a hundred

I will never know from where

Came those lovely scarlet ribbons

Scarlet ribbons for her hair.



If I live to be a hundred

I will never know from where

Came those lovely scarlet ribbons

Scarlet ribbons for her hair...