Babies Don't Keep

These words seem to be everywhere that new parents might look. I have seen them on plaques, picture frames and pillows. So why not in song? I made up the music to this sentimental poem when my own children were very young, and a copy still hangs in our third floor hall. The words are from the last stanza of Ms Hamilton's poem: "Cleaning and scrubbing can wait 'til tomorrow, For babies grow up, we've learned to our sorrow, So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep, I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep."