A Light Blow

                              (Three yeggmen in New York got 26 cts. when they blew a safe)

It is not safe to blow a safe,

     That is, you never know,

If you are going to get a breeze

     Or nothing, when you blow.

When they found naught but twenty six,

     Those merry yeggmen three,

It must have been an awful blow –

     A case of twenty-three!

If I were really short of cash

     And would safe-blowing go,

I will be blowed if I would blow

     A safe at all, no, no!

I’d hunt behind a picture frame,

     ‘Neath pillows and the like;

I’d find old stockings – that’s the place

     To make a lucky strike!

But blowing safes? It is the style

     No longer, if you please;

‘Tis seldom you can raise the wind

     With such an old-time breeze.

It breeds ill feeling, too, those yeggs,

     When their bold mission fell,

They gave the owners of the safe

     A blowing up as well.

Apr. 8, 1913

For Tues.

Apr. 15, ‘13

yeggman – safecracker, a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents.

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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Sunday, April 6, 1913, p.14

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