I've lipped synced "Lions' Cage" sincec oollege in 1947.

Thus, without my trying, the lyrics ar etced in my memory.

I've highlighted certain words tha are as she sang on her 78rpm record and vary from other versions in this thread


A lady once she had a lovely daughter
The mother was a actress on the stage,
She traveled with a troop of well-trainer lions
And each night she went in the lions' cage.

A lady once she had a lovely daughter
The mother was a actress on the stage,
She traveled with a troop of well-trainer lions
And each night she went in the lions' cage.

One day the daughter had a premonition
that everything that night would not go right
And so she told her mother in the kitchen,
"Please don't go in the lions' caget tonight."

"Please don't go in the xcagge, Mama darling
For the lions look ferocious and may bite
"And when they get theior angry fits
They may tear you all to bits,
So please, don't go in the lions cage tonight."

The mother heeded not the daughter's warning,
But to her turned and softly said "Go Homne"
"I think I ought to knows what I am doing
:"When I'm around the lions all feel blue."

That night while she was dancing in the lions cage
The lions thought that they would like to eat
And as they bit the mother's head off,
these words came bck to her so soft and sweet: