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It's the curiousest thing in creation, / Whenever I hear that old song, / "Do They Miss Me at Home? " I'm so bothered, / My life seems as short as it's long! -- / Far ever'thing 'pears like adzackly / It 'peared, in the years past and gone, -- / When I started out sparkin', at twenty, / And had my first neckercher on!
Though I'm wrinkelder, older and grayer / Right now than my parents was then, / You strike up that song, "Do They Miss Me? " / And I'm jest a youngster again! -- / I'm a-standin' back there in the furries / A-wishin' far evening to come, / And a-whisperin' over and over / Them words, "Do They Miss Me at Home? "