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Joe Offer Origins: Sweet Little Robin (Burl Ives) (41) ADD: There Came to my Window 12 Nov 25


THERE CAME TO MY WINDOW

There came to my window one morning in Spring
A sweet little Robin; she came there to sing.
The tune that she sang, it was prettier far
Than any I heard on the flute or guitar.

Her wings she was spreading to soar far away,
Then resting a moment seemed sweetly to say:
“Oh happy, how happy the world seems to be!
Awake, Little Girl and be happy with me!”

But just as she finished her beautiful song,
A thoughtless young man with a gun came along.
He killed and he carried my sweet bird away,
She no more will sing at the dawn of the day.

Source:
MOTHER’S LITTLE RHYME BOOK
No. 2 of
OLD NURSERY RHYMES

Illustrated by
H. Willebeek Le Mair

AUGENER Ltd., LONDON
David McKay,
604-608 South Washington Square,
Philadelphia.

Printed in England

https://readingroo.ms/5/9/7/3/59735/59735-h/59735-h.htm

This is more of a nursery rhyme than a song.


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