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Trouble in the Doll’s House
If another doll should come here, all beautifully dressed,
And my mama should love her a little bit the best,
My heart would just be broken, for little May and I
Have been such happy playmates in the year that ’s just gone by!
And I ’m very sure no stranger, however fine and new.
Could love my little mother as dearly as I do.
And my mama should love her a little bit the best,
My heart would just be broken, for little May and I
Have been such happy playmates in the year that ’s just gone by!
And I ’m very sure no stranger, however fine and new.
Could love my little mother as dearly as I do.
No wonder I ’m unhappy! It’s dreadful to be told,
“You look forlorn and shabby, and are getting very old,”
When you feel so brisk and lively you know it can ’t be true!
Oh, dear! I wish that some one would make me something new,
And fix me up a little, so nobody would say
A Christmas doll was needed for dearest little May!
“You look forlorn and shabby, and are getting very old,”
When you feel so brisk and lively you know it can ’t be true!
Oh, dear! I wish that some one would make me something new,
And fix me up a little, so nobody would say
A Christmas doll was needed for dearest little May!
So if you meet with Santa, do tell him, please, for me,
That I and little mother are as happy as can be;
That I ’m just as good to play with as any doll you know,
And not a minute older than I was a year ago;
Tell him not to bring a dolly, whatever he may do,
For whoever says we want one, I say it is n ’t true!
That I and little mother are as happy as can be;
That I ’m just as good to play with as any doll you know,
And not a minute older than I was a year ago;
Tell him not to bring a dolly, whatever he may do,
For whoever says we want one, I say it is n ’t true!
