Page:Backblock Ballads and Later Verses (C.J. Dennis, 1918).djvu/145

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K'SHOO
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I have to wride adother verse,
  Ad dode doe whad to say;
But I've got to buy some bedicid
  To drive this code away;
Oh, the boed's is a hard, hard life,
  His lod is very sore;
Ad if bisfortude cubs to hib,
  He has to toil the bore.
And dow, I thig I've bade enough,
  By wridig this last verse,
To go ad buy byself sub stuff
  Before by code geds worse.

I've got a code—a code—
  Ad aggravadig code !
If I was well I'd wride you such
  A charbig liddle ode.
I'd sig of labkids od the sward,
  Bedeath the skies so blue,
If it wasn'd for the
  Ah—
Ah—
Ah—h—
Kish—SHOO-O-O!