04-15-2019, 10:24 AM
What’s Me Temp’rance Worth, Sister?
I’ve took me pleasures mostly secont-hand–
enjoying other fellers’ seegar smoke
jest in me nose, not like them in ther lungs.
As fer the ladies, spent me quarter fer
ter watch ‘em at ther work through peepholes, which
saved me tha siller dollar fer tha deed
and from that lousy bizniss wi’ tha clap.
I quaffed me coffee, after I hed lernt
to drink tha bitter stuff, fer such is life;
but as fer likker, I hev drunk me share
of whiskey, bless tha man who thought of it.
But now tha sawbones sez me liver’s shot
so, scared jest like I was from other things
I’ll sign yer pledge, ye cleanly-looking lass.
But jest in compensation, if ye please–
a dollar’s worth for temp’rance, finally!
I’ve took me pleasures mostly secont-hand–
enjoying other fellers’ seegar smoke
jest in me nose, not like them in ther lungs.
As fer the ladies, spent me quarter fer
ter watch ‘em at ther work through peepholes, which
saved me tha siller dollar fer tha deed
and from that lousy bizniss wi’ tha clap.
I quaffed me coffee, after I hed lernt
to drink tha bitter stuff, fer such is life;
but as fer likker, I hev drunk me share
of whiskey, bless tha man who thought of it.
But now tha sawbones sez me liver’s shot
so, scared jest like I was from other things
I’ll sign yer pledge, ye cleanly-looking lass.
But jest in compensation, if ye please–
a dollar’s worth for temp’rance, finally!
Non-practicing atheist