His pa's romance / James Whitcomb Riley [electronic text]
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His pa's romance / James Whitcomb Riley [electronic text]
Author
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916
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Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
1903
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GOOD-BYE ER HOWDY-DO
Say good-bye er howdy-do—What's the odds betwixt the two?Comin'—goin' —every day —Best friends first to go away —Grasp of hands you'd ruther holdThan their weight in solid gold,Slips their grip while greetin' you.—Say good-bye er howdy-do?
Howdy-do, and then, good-bye—Mixes jist like laugh and cry;Deaths and births, and worst and best,Tangled their contrariest;Ev'ry jinglin' weddin'-bellSkeerin' up some funer'l knell. —Here's my song, and there's your sigh.—Howdy-do, and then, good-bye!
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Say good-bye er' howdy-do —Jist the same to me and you;'Taint worth while to make no fuss,'Cause tim job's put up on us!Some One's runnin' this concernThat's got nothin' else to learn:,If He's willin', we'll pull through —Say good-bye er howdy-do!
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