For Sale-A Baby

For Sale-A Baby
CHARLES K HARRIS
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In a cheerless room there sits a sad young mother
Holding in her arms a baby so fair and sweet
In the pantry there’s no food to give the baby
There’s no shoes to cover up its tiny feet:
As she gazes on her child the tears are falling
Ard she zobs “My darling I must part from you,”
Then she paints a sign and hangs it in the window
And It reads “A baby in this house for sale”

Refrain:
For sale, a baby, with golden hair,
For sale, a baby, so sweet and fair:
For sale, a baby, who’ll smile and coo
For sale, a baby with eyes of blue

Daya passed by, but no one came to buy the haby,
And it seemed each day to slowly droop and ad pine
No one cared that abe and mother both were starving
And they only smiled as they gazed at the sign:
But one morning on the doorstep clasped together
They had found the peace they could not find on earth,
For the angels up above had claimed the baby
And had seen the algn and taken her above