Title: American Old Time Song Lyrics
Subject: Traditional & Folk Music
Author: www.traditionalmusic.co.uk
Keywords: Old time music, American, oldtimey, bluegrass

Don't Touch Baby's Grave - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
DON'T TOUCH BABY'S GRAVE. Copyright, 1890, by Willis Woodward & Co. Words by George Cooper. Music by May E. Cooper. 
I wandered in a pensive mood where lay the silent dead And as I mused above the grass so green The names of those who slept below with reverence I read And thought of joys and sorrows they had seen; The turmoil of a city fell upon the silence there, As its people thronged with ever restless wave And with a voice of sadness and a look of weary care A woman pleaded, "Don't touch baby's gravel" 
Chorus. They were moving from their resting-place the silent dust of those Who thought when life had fled from all its toil they'd have repose, But a loving mother pleaded there her little one to save. And begged with pitying accents: "Don't touch baby's grave!" 
She thought of all her child had been, the sweet and laughing eyes, The rosebud lips that were to her so dear; She knew that she would meet her babe above in Paradise, Yet o'er that grave fell the silent tear; The outer world could little know the grief that filled her breast. As with all her love she strove that mound to save; She wrung her hands with anguish and a mother's sad unrest, And wildly pleaded: "Don't touch baby's grave!" -Chorus.