Monday, March 9, 2015

A Gungawamp Hustler



Folks don’t think I have much to do
     In this here busy town;
They think I pass the hull day through
     By jest sittin’ round.
It’s lazy folks who criticize
     The things what others do;
That I’m as busy as can be
     I’ll leave it here to you.

I git up early every day,
Say half past nine or ten;
An’ then of course I have to eat,
     An’ have a smoke an’ then
I have to go an’ git the mail,
     An’ come here to the store
An’ hear the news thet’s going round,
     Which takes an hour or more.

An’ then I have to eat again,
     An’ have another smoke
An’ then it’s time to get the mail   
     Again, an’ so I poke
‘Long down the street an’ stop an’ talk –
     You’ve got to be perlite,
An’ by the time I git back home
     It’s comin’ towards night.

If it was only now an’ then
     I wouldn’t care a ding;
But where it’s ev’ry day the same
     It’s hard on me, I jing!
Folks think I don’t have much to do
     But live, but I’ll be bound,
I’d like to have ‘em take a week
     An’ foller me around!



March 9, ‘09


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