Lyr Req: Kitty in the Basket (Eliza Lee Follen)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'and kitty too where has she gone'
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 08:45 PM

Won't hurt to have the answer twice, Jim.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'and kitty too where has she gone'
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 08:44 PM

Oops. Just noticed I already answered the same question in another thread last May:

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=9845

Subject: Lyr Add: KITTY IN THE BASKET (Eliza Lee Follen)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 09 Jan 10 - 08:40 PM

Here it is, 10 years later. Suppose Grandma made it to 103?

From Little Songs by Eliza Lee Follen (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1875), page 37:


KITTY IN THE BASKET.

"Where is my little basket gone?"
Said Charlie boy, one day;
"I guess some little boy or girl
Has taken it away.

"And Kitty, too, I can't find her;
O, dear! what shall I do?
I wish I could my basket find,
And little Kitty, too.

"I'll go to mother's room, and look;
Perhaps she may be there,
For Kitty loves to take a nap
In mother's easy-chair.

"O, mother, mother! come and look!
See what a little heap!
My Kitty's in the basket here,
All cuddled down to sleep."

He took the basket carefully,
And brought it in a minute,
And showed it to his mother dear,
With little Kitty in it.

Subject: 'and kitty too where has she gone'
From:
Date: 22 Mar 99 - 12:54 PM

Want to surprise grandmother with music, title and words to a lullabye she partially recalls her own mother singing to her. Reach back and help me make a 93 year old happy. Other phrases she recalls are: "they've taken her away" and "Said Charlie boy one day". Any help would be most appreciated. One person suggested contacting www.kiddidles.com -- I keep getting a FATAL ERROR message. Can anyone come up with a current address for this site?

Please help. Grandma won't last forever.