Scarlet Ribbons

I peeked in to say goodnight

And I heard my child in

Prayer please bring me

Some scarlet ribbons

Scarlet ribbons for my hair

Through the night my heart

Was achin' just before the dawn was breaking

I looked in and on her

Bed in gay profusion lying

There scarlet ribbons lovely

Ribbons scarlet ribbons for her hair

If I live to be a hundred I will never know from

Where came those ribbons lovely ribbons

Scarlet ribbons for her hair