The Old Familiar Phrases

Do you have that tired feeling

     In your bones from day to day?

Do you pass the dragging moments

     In a yawny, stretchy way?

Are you weary, are you sleepy,

     Don’t you feel like anything?

If you don’t I know the reason –

               It is spring.

Do you have that tired feeling

     Hearing other folks complain?

Do they tell you all their troubles

     In the old familiar strain?

Do they say they’re feeling dumpish,

     Bum, and all that sort of thing?

If they do you know the reason –

              It is spring.

March 26, ‘05