Jonas Lee’s Spring Feelin’

“I tell ye what,” says Jonas Lee,

“The spring is what appeals to me;

Don’t care fur all the rest the year,

But when the gentle spring gits here

There is a feelin’ in my soul

Which puts me way beyond control;

A joy thet busts my prison bars

An' kerries me beyond the stars.

“I like to set outside the door

Jest where the sure rays shed an’ pour

Their warmth down on my head all day

An’ doze an’ dream, an’ doze away

An’ hold communion with the skies

An’ ketch a glimpse uv parrerdise!

But jest ez soon ez I git sot

My wife she lands right on the spot.

“My wife ain’t got the least idee

Uv soulful things the same ez me,

She’ll come at me full tilt an’ say:

‘I’m goin’ to clean the house today,

Now peel your jacket, Jonas Lee,

An’ bang that parlor carpet, see!’

An’ then the dreams thet I hev had

Are busted, an’ my soul is sad!”

March 31, ‘10