Blonde Or Brunette

I’m really in love with two pretty girls,

     A blonde and a chic brunette;

But which I love best, Ah! there is the test,

     Which I haven’t decided quite yet.

The blonde is a picture, the brunette is fair,

     And both of them loving and true,

But blonde or brunette, I cannot tell yet,

     And so I keep loving the two.

Don’t think I am fickle, for truly I’m not,

     I cannot help loving the twain;

They both are my life, but both can’t be my wife,

     And the thought nearly drives me insane.

I realize fully the pickle I’m in,

     But what can a poor fellow do?

Dear blonde or brunette, I cannot tell yet,

     And so I am rushing the two.

March 27, 1896

Pub. in B. Courier,

May 16, ‘97