IV.

I DON’T feel like I used to feel no more;It seems as though I’d like to go awayFrom where the racket’s goin’ on all day,And have her with me there, and she’d be soreAt that rich dude who meets her at the doorBack by the stage when she’s got through the play:I wish that she’d get sweet on me and sayShe never knew what lovin’ was before.I’ve got a tooth-brush now, and every nightI wash my neck and ears: I don’t intendTo chew tobacco any more, nor spendMy change fer cigarettes; her teeth are white,And if she seen that mine were, too, she mightBe liable to love me. Every timeShe looks at me it kind of seems that I’mAll full of something tickel-ish and light.

I DON’T feel like I used to feel no more;

It seems as though I’d like to go away

From where the racket’s goin’ on all day,

And have her with me there, and she’d be sore

At that rich dude who meets her at the door

Back by the stage when she’s got through the play:

I wish that she’d get sweet on me and say

She never knew what lovin’ was before.

I’ve got a tooth-brush now, and every nightI wash my neck and ears: I don’t intendTo chew tobacco any more, nor spendMy change fer cigarettes; her teeth are white,And if she seen that mine were, too, she mightBe liable to love me. Every timeShe looks at me it kind of seems that I’mAll full of something tickel-ish and light.

I’ve got a tooth-brush now, and every night

I wash my neck and ears: I don’t intend

To chew tobacco any more, nor spend

My change fer cigarettes; her teeth are white,

And if she seen that mine were, too, she might

Be liable to love me. Every time

She looks at me it kind of seems that I’m

All full of something tickel-ish and light.

I’d like it if I knew some way to makeMy ears stay closer to my head and notStick out the way they do, as though they’d gotUnfastened and hung loose. I wish I’d wakeTo-morrow so good-lookin’ it would breakHer heart unless I’d take her on the spot;And I could lick that dude if he got hotAnd made rough house when she’d give him the shake.If I could go away with her to whereThere wasn’t anybody else at all,And we could set around all day or lollBeside the cricks and never have to careWhen bells would ring, and all around us thereThe posies would be growin’ sweet and tall,I’d never mind if it was spring or fall—But still I s’pose she couldn’t live on air.

I’d like it if I knew some way to make

My ears stay closer to my head and not

Stick out the way they do, as though they’d got

Unfastened and hung loose. I wish I’d wake

To-morrow so good-lookin’ it would break

Her heart unless I’d take her on the spot;

And I could lick that dude if he got hot

And made rough house when she’d give him the shake.

If I could go away with her to whereThere wasn’t anybody else at all,And we could set around all day or lollBeside the cricks and never have to careWhen bells would ring, and all around us thereThe posies would be growin’ sweet and tall,I’d never mind if it was spring or fall—But still I s’pose she couldn’t live on air.

If I could go away with her to where

There wasn’t anybody else at all,

And we could set around all day or loll

Beside the cricks and never have to care

When bells would ring, and all around us there

The posies would be growin’ sweet and tall,

I’d never mind if it was spring or fall—

But still I s’pose she couldn’t live on air.

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