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Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns), a non-fiction book by (Edgar W. Nye) Bill Nye |
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A Dose't Of Blues |
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_ I' got no patience with blues at all! And I ust to kindo' talk Aginst 'em, and claim, 'tel along last fall, They was none in the fambly stock; But a nephew of mine, from Eelinoy, That visited us last year, He kindo' convinct me different While he was a-stayin' here. Frum ever'-which-way that blues is frum, They'd tackle him ever' ways; They'd come to him in the night, and come On Sundys, and rainy days; They'd tackle him in corn-plantin' time, And in harvest, an airly fall, But a dose't of blues in the wintertime He 'lowed was the worst of all! Said all diseases that ever he had-- The mumps, er the rheumatiz-- Er ever-other-day aigger's bad Purt' nigh as anything is!-- Er a cyarbuncle, say, on the back of his neck, Er a fellon on his thumb,-- But you keep the blues away frum him, And all o' the rest could come! And he'd moan, "they's narry a leaf below! Ner a spear o' grass in sight! And the whole wood-pile's clean under snow! And the days is dark as night! And you can't go out--ner you can't stay in-- Lay down--stand up--ner set!" And a case o' reguller tyfoid blues Would double him jest clean shet! I writ his parents a postal-kyard |