"Hang Up the Baby's Stocking" (1870)
Song and Chorus
Words from "The Little Corporal"
by Emily Huntington Miller, 1833-1913
Music by
Hiram Murray Higgins, 182?-1879

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Company
New York: C. H. Ditson & Company
[Source: 105/064@Levy]

1. Hang up the baby's stocking 
Be sure you don't forget!
The dear little dimpled darling,
She never saw Christmas yet!
But I've told her all about it,
And she opened her big blue eyes;
And I'm sure she understood it-
She looked so funny and wise.

CHORUS [sung after each verse]
Hang up the Baby's stocking,
Be sure you don't forget!
The dear little dimpled darling,
She ne'er saw Christmas yet.

2. Dear, what a tiny stocking!
It doesn't take much to hold
Such little pink toe's as baby's
Away from the frost and the cold
But then, for the baby's Christmas,
It will never do at all.
Why! Santa wouldn't be looking
For anything half so small.

3. I know what I will do for the baby.
I've thought of the very best plan.
I'll borrow a stocking of Grandma's,
The longest that ever I can
And you'll hang it by mine, dear mother,
Right here in the corner so!
And leave a letter to Santa,
And fasten it in the toe.

4.Write, "this is the baby's stocking,
That hangs in the corner here.
You never have seen her, Santa,
For she only came this year
But she's just the blessed-est baby,
And now before you go,
Just cram her stocking with goodies,
From the top clean down to the toe.