I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard
written by h.w. petrie / lyrics by philip wingate
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I DON'T WANT TO PLAY IN YOUR YARD - Mae Questel as Betty Boop
(sung as "Won't You Come Play In My House") MINDING THE BABY (TALKARTOONS) 1931 I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard is a 1894 popular song written by composer and performer H.W. Petrie and lyricist Phillip Wingate. This true classic is one of the earliest commercially successful recordings. In 1931, the song appears in Fleischer's Betty Boop Talkartoon short Minding The Baby, where it is sung as "Won't You Come Play In My House." The song was a hit for Peggy Lee in 1955, and in 1981 the song makes a memorable appearance in the film Reds, where it is sung by Diane Keaton.
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1894
MINNIE EMMETT |
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1895
GEORGE J. GASKIN |
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1925
CLIFF EDWARDS |
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1929
EVELYN GRIFFITHS & CHARLES HAWTREY |
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1955
PEGGY LEE |
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1960
RITA WILLIAMS & BARBARA WINDSOR |
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1961
THE VONNAIR SISTERS |
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1962
(JAPANESE VERSION) |
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1975
PEGGY LEE (LIVE IN LONDON) |
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1981
DIANE KEATON from the film REDS |
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1987
JOAN MORRIS & WILLIAM BOLCOM |
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1996
SOPRANO CATHERINE LAIDLER-LAU |
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19??
MARY COUGHLAN |
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2003
THE DAGONS |
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2005
IAN WHITCOMB |
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2011
BARBARA WINDSOR |
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20??
SHEET MUSIC SINGER |
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STELLA 17 1/4 INCHES |
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I DON'T WANT TO PLAY IN YOUR YARD
Once there lived side by side, two little maids
Used to dress just alike, hair down in braids
Blue gingham pinafores, stockings of red
Little sun bonnets tied on each pretty head
When school was over secrets they'd tell
Whispering arm in arm, down by the well
One day a quarrel came, hot tears were shed
"You can't play in our yard," but the other said
Chorus:
I don't want to play in your yard
I don't like you any more
You'll be sorry when you see me
Sliding down our cellar door
You can't holler down our rain barrel
You can't climb our apple tree
I don't want to play in your yard
If you won't be good to me
Next day two little maids each other miss
Quarrels are soon made up, sealed with a kiss
Then hand in hand again, happy they go
Friends all through life to be, they love each other so
Soon school days pass away, sorrows and bliss
But love remembers yet, quarrels and kiss
In sweet dreams of childhood, we hear the cry
"You can't play in our yard," and the old reply
Once there lived side by side, two little maids
Used to dress just alike, hair down in braids
Blue gingham pinafores, stockings of red
Little sun bonnets tied on each pretty head
When school was over secrets they'd tell
Whispering arm in arm, down by the well
One day a quarrel came, hot tears were shed
"You can't play in our yard," but the other said
Chorus:
I don't want to play in your yard
I don't like you any more
You'll be sorry when you see me
Sliding down our cellar door
You can't holler down our rain barrel
You can't climb our apple tree
I don't want to play in your yard
If you won't be good to me
Next day two little maids each other miss
Quarrels are soon made up, sealed with a kiss
Then hand in hand again, happy they go
Friends all through life to be, they love each other so
Soon school days pass away, sorrows and bliss
But love remembers yet, quarrels and kiss
In sweet dreams of childhood, we hear the cry
"You can't play in our yard," and the old reply
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