"God's Little Girl"
(melody circa 1875; words 1895; arrangement 17 Mar 2008)
Words by William Shakespeare Hays (1837-1907)
from page 10, of "Poems and Songs" (1895)
Melody by Joseph Philbrick Webster (1819-1875)

[Source: unpublished/undated manuscript copy from
UW-Whitewater, on top back of "Hosanna", above
"Mary Mary Mary"]

Beautiful child, with golden hair, 
Sweet little girl, so young, so fair, 
With your smiling face and your eyes so blue, 
Say, “Whose little girl are you?” 

[CHORUS]
A lovelier child was never born, 
She was going to Sundayschool that morn.
When I asked, “Whose little girl are you?” 
She said: “I’m Dod’s ’itle dirl— ’at’s ’oo.”