WHAT IS A HOME WITHOUT BABIES?
Charlie Poole with the North Carolina Ramblers
Columbia 15307-D, July 23, 1928


All alone in a mansion
With no one to love and caress
Sat a man noble and handsome
No loving wife's lips to press
She married him for his position
No love was in her heart
He looked around in his grand home
And from his lips came these words

What is a home without babies,
To love and to tease you adore?
What is home without a sweet wife,
To kiss you each night at the door?
What is a home without sunshine,
To shed its bright rays from above?
You may have wealth and its pleasure
But what is a home without love?

Down the street he walked one evening
Passed a cottage so neat.
Stopped and looked in the window
And see a picture so sweet
A husband and wife, and baby
Laughing and kissing too
He turned aside, his tears to hide
And from his lips came these words

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Notes: Roy Harvey recorded "What is a Home Without Love" in 1927 for Brunswick.