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It's lonesome -- sorto' lonesome, -- it's a _Sund'y-day_, to me, / It 'pears-like -- more'n any day I nearly ever see! -- / Yit, with the Stars and Stripes above, a-flutterin' in the air, / On ev'ry Soldier's grave I'd love to lay a lilly thare.
They say, though, Decoration Days is giner'ly observed / 'Most _ev'rywhares_ -- espeshally by soldier-boys that's served. -- / But me and Mother's never went -- we seldom git away, -- / In p'int o' fact, we're _allus_ home on _Decoration Day_.