No More "Spanking "

An’ now they do not spank no more,

     So all the papers say;

They say that spanking little boys

     And girls has died away.

They say it’s jus’ gone out of style,

     Of course it had to wait

Till I was growed too big to spank

     ‘Fore it went out of date.

‘Twas right in style when I was small,

     A dozen times a day;

Guess I was spanked so much that I

     Was almost spanked away.

Ma took a hand, then pa a turn,

     An’ ‘tween ‘em both I got

All that was comin’ round to me,

     Right on my tender spot.

Some people seem to like to spank

     Their children ev’ry dy.

They get a kind of exercise

     They get no other way.

An’ then they say how much it hurts

     Themselves to spank us so;

I guess it only hurts their hands

     They spank so hard, you know.

Now spankin’ has gone out of style

     I’m sorry as can be;

Becuz I lose a golden chance

     That others had, you see.

I was jus’ lookin’ for the time

     When I’d have children, too,

Then I could spank ‘em good an’ hard

     Like father used to do.

Aug. 18, 1902

Pub. N.Y. Sun,

          Aug. 24, 1902