Let Us Build a Little Nest

by Jerome Kern (music and lyrics) and Edgar Allan Woolf (lyrics)

Sheet music cover

[Verse]

MITZI. Let us play the game of hide-and-seek,

If you promise me that you will not peek,

And I will do the hiding.

KIDDIES. Tell us first where you'll be hiding.

MITZI. That's not fair for cheating is a shame,

We will have to play some other game.

GIRL. What's it's name?

BOY. What's it's name?

MITZI. It's a game where we can hug and kiss.

BOY. Me for this.

GIRL. Oh what bliss.

MITZI. It's a game too good to miss,

I played it years and years ago,

With someone whom I used to know.

[Refrain]

Let us build a little nest

While we're here together,

Like little birdies do

When April skies are blue.

(SHE) We can snuggle up and rest

In the wint'ry weather

(BOTH) And if we're good as little birdies should be

Then may be we can have a family.

[Verse]

MITZI. Let's pretend now that it's late at night,

And then I come in and turn out your light,

'Cause I am Mister Sandman.

KIDDIES. Ain't never was no Sandman.

MITZI. Then I'll tuck you in your trundle bed,

And like dear mama kiss each sleepy head.

GIRL. Who said?

BOY. Sleepy head.

MITZI. If your ma should spank you would you cry?

BOY. Bet your life.

GIRL. Bet your life.

MITZI. And believe me so would I,

Of all the games I like one best,

The one where we can build a nest.

[Refrain]

Let us build a little nest

While we're here together,

Like little birdies do

When April skies are blue.

We can snuggle up and rest

In the wint'ry weather

(BOTH) And if we're good as little birdies should be

Then may be we can have a family.