Goodbye Little French Mother
by Jack Caddigan and Chick Story

Illustrated by Norman Rockwell

I thought you might want to read the words to the song that goes with the painting.

This sheet music cover appeared after being published on the Life magazine cover with a slightly different title, Goodbye, Little French Mother.

This is sung "tenderly with feeling" according to the score.

Where the shadows gathered on that foreign shore,
There they met to say good-bye and meet no more,
As he took her in his arms to kiss away a tear,
Softly he whispered in he ear,

Little French mother, good-bye, good-bye,
Dry up the tear in your eye, don't cry,
I knew from the start that some day we'd part,
But down in my heart,
Oh, I wish I could stay a little longer,
Little French mother, don't sigh, don't sigh,
A million others love you just the same as I,
You did all a mother could,
You're a flow'r of woman-hood,
Little French Mother, good-bye!

There they'll find the sweetest story ever told,
It will tell the world how much sweet mother love can do;
And just how much we think of you."

Little French mother, good-bye, good-bye,
Dry up the tear in your eye, don't cry,
I knew from the start that some day we'd part,
But down in my heart,
Oh, I wish I could stay a little longer,
Little French mother, don't sigh, don't sigh,
A million others love you just the same as I,
You did all a mother could,
You're a flow'r of woman-hood,
Little French Mother, good-bye!"

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