"What Is Home Without Babies?" lyrics - CHARLIE POOLE

All alone in a mansion
No one to love and caress
Sat a man noble and handsome
No loving wife's lips to press
She married him for his position
No love was in her heart
He looked around in his grand home
And from his lips came these words

What is home without babies
To love and to tease you adore?
What is home without sweet wife
To kiss you each night by the door?
What is home without sunshine
To shed its bright rays from above?
You may have wealth and its pleasure
But what is home without love?

Down the street he walked one evening
Passed a cottage so neat
He stopped and looked in the window
And see the picture so sweet
Husband and wife and baby
Laughing and kissing, too
He turned aside a tear to hide
And from his lips came these words