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Say good-by er howdy-do -- / What's the odds betwixt the two? / Comin' -- goin', ev'ry day -- / Best friends first to go away -- / Grasp of hands you'd ruther hold / Than their weight in solid gold / Slips their grip while greetin' you. -- / Say good-by er howdy-do!
Howdy-do, and then, good-by -- / Mixes jes' like laugh and cry; / Deaths and births, and worst and best, / Tangled their contrariest; / Ev'ry jinglin' weddin'-bell / Skeerin' up some funer'l knell. -- / Here's my song, and there's your sigh. -- / Howdy-do, and then, good-by!
Say good-by er howdy-do -- / Jes' the same to me and you; / 'Taint worth while to make no fuss, / 'Cause the job's put up on us! / Some One's runnin' this concern / That's got nothin' else to learn: / Ef _He's_ willin', we'll pull through -- / Say good-by er howdy-do!