COME AND BUY MY TOYS

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Song Title
COME AND BUY MY TOYS
Writers
Bowie
Publisher
ESSEX MUSIC, INC. (ASCAP)
Co-Publisher
Non-TRO Affiliate
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
US AND CANADA
Themes/Keywords
Carefree, Children, Fun, Growing Up, Toys
Lyrics
Smiling girls and rosy boys,
Come and buy my little toys,
Monkeys made of ginger bread
And sugar horses painted red.

Rich men’s children running past
Their fathers dressed in hose,
Golden hair and mud of many acres on their shoes.
Gazing eyes and running wild,
Past the stocks and over stiles,
Kiss the wind o merry child!
But come and buy my toys.

You’ve watched your father plough the fields with a ram’s horn,
Sowed it wide with peppercorn and furrowed with a bramble thorn.
Reaped it with a sharpened scythe, threshed it with a quill,
The miller told your father that he’d work it with the greatest will.

Now your watching’s over, you must play with girls and boys,
Leave the parsley on the stalls,
Come and buy my toys.

You shall own a cambric shirt,
You shall work your father’s land,
But now you shall play in the market square
Till you be a man.

Smiling girls and rosy boys
Come and buy my little toys,
Monkeys made of ginger bread
And sugar horses painted red.

Recordings

Recording Artist Genre Mood Arrangement Era iTunes
David Bowie Rock Devotional, Happy, Optimistic, Springlike Guitar, Vocal 1960's Buy >

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