THE LITTLE GOLDEN LOCKET

(Jimmy Kennedy)


As recorded by:
Casini Club Orchestra, Dir. Charlie Kunz
V. George Barclay
Recorded June 1935

Also recorded by:
Lew Stone & His Band
Jack Jackson & His Orchestra
Randy Blake & The Ranch House Boys



There’s a little golden locket
And I keep it in my pocket
A souvenir that money couldn’t buy
For the one I love once wore it
And that’s why I adore it
Though she left and never said goodbye

She was sweet and only twenty
And I guess I love her plenty
She loved me too, was very plain to see 
We were wed one morn at seven
The honeymoon was heaven
Such a happy pair we seemed to be

True love, true love, 
What did you go and do
True love, true love,
I had such faith in you

Oh we settled in the city
And they told her she was pretty
The bright lights turned her head
She went away
But her little golden locket
Still nestles in my pocket
There I’ll keep it till my dying day.



(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM 
Record Collection by Bill Huntley - August 2013)