The Office Boy’s Plight

There ain’t much show for chaps like me

To have a steady sweetheart, gee!

I only gets eight dollars per,

An’ what’s dey left to spend on her?

It costs me five fer board an’ wash,

An’ carfares put the grand kibosh

On sixty cents; An’ den I blows

A half in movin’ picture shows.

I’d like to take her fer a stroll

Each evenin’ if I had de roll;

But ice cream sodas at ten cents per –

Gee! What’s dey left to spend on her?

It ain’t no sport I wanter be,

Plain citizen’s enough fer me;

But to go out each night wid her –

Cain’t do it on eight dollars per!

July 20, ‘09