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The chap's a beau we didn't know she had / He come from out of town somewhere, they say; / I hope he's awful homely, and that they / Will fight like cats and dogs and both be sad. / But still there's one thing makes me kind of glad: / The long-legged clerk must stay and work away, / And, though he keeps pretendin' to be gay, / It's plain enough to see he's feelin' bad.
I wish when I'm a man and rich and proud, / She'd see me, tall and handsome then, and be / Blamed sorry that she didn't wait for me, / And that she'd hear the people cheerin' loud / When I went past, and down there in the crowd / I'd see her lookin' at me sorrowf'ly.