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Thread #2995   Message #3404305
Posted By: GUEST,LYRIC ADD ................ 999
13-Sep-12 - 10:36 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req/ADD: Mary Make Believe (Noel Coward)
Subject: Lyr Add: LITTLE MARY MAKE BELIEVE
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19150207&id=tcIaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O0kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3810,1816615

The below is from that link.

From The Pittsburgh Press, Feb. 7, 1915


Little Mary Make-Believe       (no attribution)

Little Mary Make-Believe,
How she makes her family grieve,
Sitting hard as she is able,
Banging! Banging! on the table.

She thinks she is a singer fine,
For she is singing all the time;
She sings so loud her voice is rasping,
Out of breath, for air she's gasping.

On and on and on she sings,
Till the bell for dinner rings;
Then her face shines with delight,
For Mary has an appetite.

Singing is an exercise
That makes her long for mother's pies,
It is a happy kind of play,
And helps her pass the time away.