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Jim Dixon Songs about Napoleon (58* d) Lyr Add: NAPOLEON (Brown, Ayer) 22 Jun 24


From the sheet music at Baylor University, published in New York by M. Witmark & Sons:


NAPOLEON
Words by A. Seymour Brown, music by Nat. D. Ayer, 1908.
From the musical play, “The Newlyweds and Their Baby,” book by Aaron Hoffman and Paul West.

1. My son was born a year ago and now he rules the house,
And if we give him what he wants, he’s quiet as a mouse.
We have a picture of Napoleon hanging on the wall.
If we don’t let him play with it, then he begins to bawl.
The likeness is remarkable to this great man of fame.
You couldn’t tell the diff’rence, if my boy was in the frame.

CHORUS: That’s why I called my son Napoleon,
After history’s most famous man.
Though he’s a little geezer, greater than Julius Caesar,
Got more brains than fill the Roman Clan.
He’ll have a tablet in the hall of Fame.
Nations will cheer him when they hear his name.
Same build as Bonaparte, My son, Napoleon.

2. The head is just identical; his mouth is just the size.
He even seems to have the same expression in his eyes.
He has Napoleon’s lock of hair; he has Napoleon’s nose,
And when we stand him on his feet, he takes Napoleon’s pose.
When I first saw the likeness, it just threw me in a daze.
The baby saw the likeness too and sang the “Marseillaise.”


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