The Right Somebody to Love (From "Captain January") - Shirley Temple

Young and old and in between

Six or sixty or sixteen

When you think that fate has been unkind

'Cause you haven’t many toys

Like some other girls and boys

Here’s a little rhyme worth remembering sometime

What makes life the sweetest

Bestest and completest?

Not a big doll house

Or a Mickey Mouse

But the right somebody to love

Ice cream, cake and candy

May be fine and dandy

But if you ask me there not one two three

With the right somebody to love

One you really care for

And is yours to have and keep;

One you say a pray’r for

In your «Now I lay me down to sleep»

Tho' you’re not quite seven

What is most like heaven?

It’s the joy that’s found

With your arms around

The right somebody to love

What makes life the sweetest

Bestest and completest?

Not what you and I

Can go out and buy

But the right somebody to love

You may have a bankful

For which to be thankful

Nothing you possess

Brings you happiness

Like the right somebody to love

One you really care for

And is yours to have and keep;

One you say a pray’r for

In your «Now I lay me down to sleep»

All the milk and honey

Pockets full of money

Cannot take the place of the sweet embrace

Of the right somebody to love