Songs for the Little Ones at Home
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected.
With the exception of the verses set to music and the index, the body of this book is entirely illustration. The plain text of the verses is appended at the end of the volume. Links to the particular verse are provided at the bottom of each page.
Songs for the Little Ones at Home
REVISED EDITION 350th Thousand
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY 150 Nassau Street, New York
Copyright, 1884 and 1911, by American Tract Society
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Air, with bass accompaniment
1. How sweet the home of Nazareth Where Mary mother smiled,
And flow’rs of daily duty bloom’d About the holy Child.
His Father’s will was all His task Within that earthly home,
That will for ever done in Heav’n Whence He so late had come.
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Transcriber's Notes
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
HEART AND HEARTHSTONE
THE FATHER’S WILL
THE FATHER’S WILL
WHEN FATHER COMES HOME
DEAR MAMMA
MY MOTHER
FOR MOTHER
MY FATHER BLESSED ME
THE PRINCE COMES
WHERE_DID_YOU_COME_FROM_BABY_DEAR
HUSHABY
BABY_SLEEP
SWEETLY SLEEP
GOODNIGHT
THE BABY-JUMPER
MY BROTHER
LOVE YOUR LITTLE BROTHER
THE BROOK
LOVE ONE ANOTHER
SYMPATHY
LOVE AT HOME
WE ARE SEVEN
GRANDPA AND ME
JESUS DWELLS WITHIN
THE BLIND BOY
LITTLE NEIGHBORS
A BOY’S FAITH
THE BLACKBERRY-GIRL
THE BLACKBERRY-GIRL
HOW SELFISH IT IS!
THINKING OF MERCIES
HOUR BY HOUR
DAWN OF DAY
THE COLD WATER BOY
WHAT I HATE
WHAT I LOVE
TIME
LITTLE DROPS OF WATER
HOW I LOVE
HAPPY HELEN
THE LIE
MEDDLESOME MATTIE
PERSEVERE
IS IT YOU?
DAISY’S PRAYER
THE SHADOWS
CHILD’S SELF-EXAMINATION
HO FOR SLUMBERLAND
SLUMBER ISLANDS
ASLEEP
LITTLE POOR RELATIONS
LITTLE, BUT WISE
KITTY AND MOUSIE
KINDNESS TO ANIMALS
THE NAUGHTY CHICK
ROBIN REDBREAST’S SECRET
A TEMPERANCE SONG
THE CAPTIVE BLUEBIRD
CRUEL SPORT
THE BIRD’S NEST
THE BOY AND THE LARK
DON’T KILL THE BIRDS
ANSWER TO A CHILD’S QUESTION
THE SNOW-BIRD’S SONG
THE SPARROW IN THE SNOW
THE WANDERINGS OF THE BIRDS
THE TURTLE-DOVES
THE PEACOCK
BUSY BEE
THE SPIDER AND THE FLY
PRETTY BEE
THE MERRY FLY
THE BUTTERFLY
MY TAME SQUIRREL
THE SQUIRREL’S ARITHMETIC
THE LAMB’S LULLABY
COUNTRY MUSIC
MARY AND HER LAMB
OF WHAT ARE YOUR CLOTHES MADE?
THE LITTLE FISH
THE REINDEER AND THE RABBIT
THE PET LAMB
THE GREAT OUTDOORS
THROUGH THE YEAR
THE SNOW
THE NORTH WIND
THE SNOW-SHOWER
WHAT THE WINDS BRING
THE VOICE OF SPRING
A WALK IN SPRING
THE ARK AND THE DOVE
MERRY RAINDROPS
THE SNOWDROP
THE BUD
THE VIOLET
AN APRIL SHOWER
THE THUNDERSTORM
SUMMER-TIME
HAPPY CHILDHOOD
SEVEN TIMES ONE
THE SETTING SUN
SUN, MOON, AND STARS
THE STARS ARE COMING
THE WORKS OF GOD
THE SLED-RIDE
DAPPLE GRAY
MY LITTLE PONY
THE SWING
SATURDAY NIGHT
MY SHADOW
RUN AND PLAY
LIGHTLY ROW
LIGHTLY ROW
ON EARTH AS IN HEAVEN
GOD IS IN HEAVEN
GOD, THE CREATOR
THAT SWEET STORY OF OLD
THAT SWEET STORY OF OLD
THE MASTER HAS COME OVER JORDAN
LIKE JESUS
NEVER FORGET TO PRAY
MORNING HYMN
PRAISE
CHILDREN’S PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
GOD’S NAME
PREPARING FOR THE SABBATH
SABBATH MORNING
THE BEST DAY
AT SABBATH SCHOOL
THE SABBATH SCHOOL
DEAR LITTLE HEADS IN THE PEW
THE GIVERS
WHAT LITTLE CHILDREN MAY DO
JESUS BIDS US SHINE
A SWARM OF BEES
A BIT OF A SERMON
THE HAPPY LAND
THE NEWCOMER IN HEAVEN
CHILDREN’S PRAISES
THE CHRIST CHILD
O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
CRADLE HYMN
ONCE IN ROYAL DAVID’S CITY
STAR OF THE EAST
RING OUT THE BELLS FOR CHRISTMAS
WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS BY NIGHT
Christmas Carol
CHRISTMAS CAROL
CRADLE HYMN
HEROES AND PATRIOTS
YOUNG SOLDIERS
HOW BIG WAS ALEXANDER, PA?
THE HEROIC BOY
THE LEAK IN THE DIKE
“IN GOD WE TRUST”
MY COUNTRY, ‘TIS OF THEE
THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS
THE LANDING OF THE PILGRIMS
MY OWN, MY NATIVE LAND
INDEX
SONGS WITH MUSIC
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