Vintage Audio: Just A Baby's Prayer At Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There)
Updated - Saturday, 19 July, 2003

Reproduced below are the lyrics to the sentimental U.S. song Just A Baby's Prayer At Twilight (For Her Daddy Over There).

With words by Sam Lewis and Joe Young, and music by M K Jerome - all three New Yorkers - the song was published by the Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co. in the closing year of the war, 1918.

Click here to listen to a version of the song performed by Henry Burr in 1918 (MP3 format 1,186kb)

Just A Baby's Prayer At Twilight (for Her Daddy Over There)

Intro
I've heard the prayers of mothers,
Some of them old and gray
I've heard the prayers of others
For those who went away

Oft times a prayer will teach one
The meaning of good bye
I felt the pain of each one,
But this one made me cry

Just a baby's prayer at twilight
When lights are low
Poor baby's years
are filled with tears

There's a mother there at twilight
Who's proud to know
Her precious little tot
Is Dad's forget-me-not

After saying "Goodnight, Mama"
She climbs up stairs
Quite unawares
And says her prayers

"Oh! kindly tell my daddy
That he must take care"
That's a baby's prayer at twilight
For her daddy, "over there"

The gold that some folks pray for,
Brings nothing but regrets
Some day this gold won't pay for
Their many lifelong debts.

Some prayers may be neglected
Beyond the Gold Gates.
But when they're all collected,
Here's one that never waits;

Just a baby's prayer at twilight
When lights are low
Poor baby's years
are filled with
There's a mother there at twilight
Who's proud to know
Her precious little tot
Is Dad's forget-me-not

After saying, "Goodnight, Mama"
She climbs up stairs
Quite unawares
And says her prayers

"Oh! kindly tell my daddy
That he must take care"
That's a baby's prayer at twilight
For her daddy, "over there"

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