[PRETTY AS A] PICTURE!
Oh, my heart is gone, and I'm forlorn,
A darling face has won me -
Such a lovely girl, with teeth of pearl,
I met down by the brook:
She is the prettiest and the wittiest,
Her smile has quite outdone me;
I'm her only beau, she told me so
When first my arm she took:
She's as pretty as a picture,
And her voice is just the cage, where the little birds are signing [sic],
She's the sweetest and the neatest,
She's as pretty as a picture all the while.
Chorus. - Oh! my heart is gone, and I'm forlorn,
Her darling face has won me;
Such a lovely girl, with teeth of pearl,
An angel without wings.
When 'twas time to go, we talked so low,
The roses scarce could hear us;
Then my heart in sport, 'twas Cupid's caught,
Like fishes near the sea.
When I loved her so, as I turned to go,
She fondly lingered near me,
And she dropped her head and sweetly said: "I wish you au-revoir!"
She's as pretty as a picture,
And my heart's a golden frame, where ever you may find her,
She is a fairy blith [sic] and airy,
She's as pretty as a picture all the while.
Chorus. - Oh! my heart is gone, and I'm forlorn &c.
W. J. SCHMIDT, Standard Song Publisher,
16 S. Fremont Street, opposite Hollins, Baltimore.
