Watch Out

Beware, you bad Suburbanites

     Who break your Sabbath days

By hoeing gardens, mowing lawns,

     And noisy other ways.

Lay down your hoe, turn off your hose,

     Now mind what you’re about,

Or else the cop will get you if

     You-don’t-watch-out.

O don’t you know, Suburbanites,

     Your lawns will go to grass,

Your garden truck will go to pot

     If you persist, alas!

In working on the Sabbath day?

     And you’ll go up te spout;

Because the copper’ll get you if

     You-don’t-watch-out.

June 8, 1904