The illustration is from a folk music mural design by Dahlov Ipcar for a Social Services Cafeteria in Washington, DC, submitted in 1940, used with permission of the Dahlov Ipcar Arts Collection, LLC..
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Words by John Gilroy; music by E. Ray Goetz - New York: Vogel Music Co., © 1906
Mock ballad from The Blue Moon
From singing of Dennis Puleston, Long Island, NY
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The illustration is from a folk music mural design by Dahlov Ipcar for a Social Services Cafeteria in Washington, DC, submitted in 1940, used with permission of the Dahlov Ipcar Arts Collection, LLC..
A lady once she had a lovely daughter,
That lady was an actress on the stage
She'd walk into a cage of angry lions
Them lions they was always in a rage.
One day her daughter had a premonition
That everything that night would not go right
And so she told her mother in the kitchen,
"Don't go in that lions' cage to-night!"
Chorus:
"Oh, don't go in that lions' cage, dear mother, dear, tonight;
Them lions is ferocious and might bite!
When they get them angry fits, they'll tear you into little bits,
So don't go in that lions' cage to-night."
The lady laughed "Ha, ha!" She did not heed the warning
That unto her the daughter she did give;
"Oh, no!" she cried, "I do not fear them lions;
Not one of them could make me cease to live!"
She went into that cage of angry lions,
Them lions was ferocious as could be;
"Alas!" she cried as one strode up and bit her,
"I now recall what daughter said to me!" (CHO)
"Oh, who will save my mother?" cried the daughter;
"By lions she is being bit and et!"
"I will!" replied a young man in the gallery;
"I'll save your mother, you can bet!"
He strode into that cage of angry lions;
He quelled them and the mother res-cu-ed;
"Here's your mom," he said, as he kissed her (the daughter);
"For I have loved you ever since you said:" (CHO)