If I Was Boss

                                (Thought out by the office boy)

I wish I was the boss round here

     Things wouldn’t be as they are now;

I’d have a better atmosphere

     Around the office, anyhow.

I wouldn’t have the best dressed clerks

     Come in most any time of day,

And then the one who really works

     Put in more hours at smaller pay.

I wouldn’t ‘low the help to speak

     About the owners as they do,

And say the boss he is a “freak”,

     I’d punch their noses black and blue.

I’d have two office boys instead

     Of one to do the work I do;

And then he wouldn’t be so dead     

     Before the long day’s work is through.

I wouldn’t let each dopey guy

     Maul our stenog’ the way they do;

But I would let the office boy

     Talk to her when he wanted to.

Perhaps I will be boss someday

     If I just work and never shirk,

And then I’ll fire them clerks away,

     And me and her will do the work.

Nov. 29, 09