Girls
Brownie Smile Song
I’ve got something in my pocket;
It belongs across my face.
And I keep it very close at hand
In a most convenient place.
I’m sure you couldn’t guess it
If you guessed a long, long while.
So I’ll take it out and put it on –
It’s a great big Brownie Smile!
Tea Party
It feels so good to have a friend
On whom you can depend.
To play with carefree, schoolgirl glee,
And share a quiet cup of tea.
The Tea Party
I had a little tea party
One afternoon at three
T’was very small
Just I, myself, and me.
Myself ate up the sandwiches
While I drank up the tea
T’was also I who ate the pie
And passed the cake to me.
Turn Around
Where are you goin’ my little one, little one?
Where are you goin’ my baby my own?
Turn around and you’re two
Turn around and you’re four
Turn around and you’re a young girl
Going out of the door
Where are you going’ my little one, little one?
Little dirndles and petticoats, where have you gone?
Turn around and you’re tiny
Turn around and you’re grown
Turn around and you’re a young wife
With babes of your own.
Pretending
When I put on my mother’s clothes
It seems my age just grows and grows,
And people think I’m quite sedate
Instead of being only eight.
When I dress up and curl my hair
I think I could go anywhere,
And be a lady at a ball
And never tell my age at all.
The Little Girls
Are these the little girls I carried,
Are these my little ones at play:
I don’t remember growing older,
When did they?
Wasn’t it only yesterday
When they were small?
Sunrise, sunset, swiftly fly the years
One season following another,
Laden with happiness and tears
