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If I was grown to be a man, and you / And all the others that are workin' here / Was always under me, and I could clear / The place to-morrow if I wanted to, / I'd buy an easy chair all nice and new / And get a bird to sing above your head, / And let you set and rest all day, instead / Of hammerin' them keys the way you do.
I'd bounce that long-legged clerk and then I'd raise / Your wages and move up my desk beside / Where you'd be settin,' restin' there, and I'd / Not care about the weather -- all the days / Would make me glad, and in the evenings then / I'd wish't was time to start to work again.