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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! -- / Fer ev'rything '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 thare in the furries / A-wishin' fer evening to come, / And a-whisperin' over and over / Them words "Do They Miss Me at Home? "