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MR. RADIO MAN (TELL MY MAMMY TO COME BACK HOME).
Words by Ira Shuster & Johnny White; music by Cliff Friend, ©1924.
As recorded by Lewis James, 1924.

Little broken hearted Sammy,
Sitting on his daddy's knee,
List'ning to the radio,
But his heart was aching so.
Since the angels took his mammy,
Any wonder why he sighed?
While his daddy fell asleep,
Sammy then did creep
To the radio and cried:

"Mister radio man,
Tell my mammy to come back home,
Won't you do what you can
'Cause I'm so lonely?
§ I've been list'ning in ev'ry day
Since she went away,
But no word from heaven's been heard.
Can't the angels hear me pray?
When the sandman is nigh,
Off to slumber-land I must go.
I know she hears me sigh
Over my radio.
And the reason I'm sighing, crying, I'm all alone.
Mister radio man,
Tell my mammy to come back home."

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