"Husband And Wife Were Angry One Night" lyrics - CHARLIE POOLE

Husband and wife were in anger one night
They thought it would be best to part
Their only little girl they loved best in the world
Was linked between heart to heart
Now parting came, they both wanted the child
But they waited for with an answer and dread
'Which one will you go with now?' Papa he asked
And this is what little girl said:

Let's all of us stay at home
It'd be so sad to be wrong
For papa loves mama and mama loves papa
And I love you both, don't you know
Now you'll regret it some day
When afar apart you two may roam
No papa to see and no mama with me
Let's all of us stay at home

Now they became reconciled
No king on his throne has a happier home
Than that little home is today
Many years have fled, now the little girl is dead
But you still hear the words that she said: