Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Publication Date
1908
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
When a boy I always tried to reach
On the tree with the very highest peach;
I thought the peach I couldn’t reach the sweetest ever seen;
When I fell in love at twenty-one
I found out like ev’ry mother’s son,
The peach that was the sweetest was the peach of sweet sixteen.
[Chorus]
Sweet Sixteens, dark or fair,
Eyes of brown or blue,
Sweet Sixteens, debonair, shy, haughty too;
Girlies with roguish eyes, girls that are queens,
Those airy, fairy, laughing, merry, cherry
Sweet Sixteens.
[Verse 2]
Sunday afternoons along the beach
If you chance to spy a blushing peach,
You best beware, you best take care if she but smiles on you;
There is mischief in her baby stare,
Pretty peeping eyes, and dimples fair,
You don’t know why you love her but you know you do, you do.
[Chorus]
Recommended Citation
Bryan, Alfred and Mills, Kerry, "Sweet Sixteens" (1908). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1308.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1308
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
New York: F.A. Mills (1908)
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