Lyrics from The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music:

The Virtual Gramophone has a 1904 recording by Robert Price.

ALWAYS IN THE WAY.
Chas. K. Harris. 1903.

1. Please, Mister, take me in your car. I want to see Mammá.
They say she lives in heaven. Is it very, very far?
My new Mammá is very cross, and scolds me ev'ry day.
I guess she does not love me, for I'm always in the way.

CHORUS: Always in the way, so they always say;
I wonder why they don't kiss me just the same as sister May?
Always in the way. I can never play.
My own Mammá would never say I'm always in the way.

2. The ride it ended all too soon. She toddled off alone.
A light shone from a window, and she peeped into the room.
"Please tell me is this heaven, Ma'am, and will they let me stay?"
"Forever, child, for this is home, and you're not in the way." CHORUS