Ruth Etting — Build a Little Home

You'll always have a roof above you As long as there's a sky And if you have someone to love you You're sure of getting by You don't need a lot of log and stone Build a home on happiness alone With a thousand little stars We can decorate the ceiling With enough domestic feeling We can build a little home Every single little dream Is a shingle or a rafter We can paint the house with laughter When we build a little home It's not a palace, nor a poorhouse But the rent is absolutely free This is my house, but it's your house If you'll come and live with me With a carpet on the floor Made of buttercups and clover All our troubles will be over When we build a little home We'll dine for hours 'mid the flowers Eating apples from an apple tree We'll take showers in the showers That the clouds bring from the sea When we want to go to sleep While the weary world reposes We can make a bed of roses When we build a little home