Just Girls

 

    Just Girls.

 

 

The N.Y. girls are passing fair,

     And more than up to date;

They’re very chic and debonair,

     As Gotham poets prate.

I’ve known sweet “Philly” maidens too,

     So modest and demure;

But that they please us through and through

     We’re not quite passing sure.

 

Chicago girls quite famous are

     In fame and beauty too;

They’re wittier than some by far,

     Yet they will hardly do.

St. Louis maids are worth your while

     In all the breezy west

Her red-lipped girl with cheery smile

     She reckons far the best.

 

And so on from the Golden Gate,

     To Key West, back to Maine,

Each city thinks her daughters great,

     The reason which is plain.

But one we know leads all the rest,

     From Maine to Frisco’s strand;

The Boston girl is far the best

     And fairest in the land.

 

March 14, ‘09