SONGS for CHILDREN, SONG XXI

Come, leave off your schooling, to sport and to play, For we must be all gay and merry to-day; It is young CHARLEY's birth-day. We all must agree, To visit our play-mate good humour'd and free. While he invites, And pleasure delights, Who'll be so happy, so happy as we?

Young CHARLEY is lov'd by the best in the town, Good nature does still all his qualities crown; He is free and good humour'd to you and to me, And to like him we all must for ever agree. While he invites, And pleasure delights, Who'll be so happy, so happy as we?

'T was CHARLEY that won the first prize of good boys, The cockade and medal he wears and enjoys, On his birth-day we all then, sure, present must be, And the tea, cakes and fruit are got ready you see. While they invite, And pastimes delight, There will none be so happy, so happy as we.