Trouble

Take yewr trouble ez it comes,

Meet it with your fife an’ drums;

Serenade ef yew can,

Meet it, meet it like a man.

Trouble tries tew lay yew low,

Don’t yew let it use yew so;

Meet it, greet it like a man,

Frown it, down it, ef yew can.

Trouble hangs aroun’ the door,

Allus wants tur give yew more;

Take it by the horns an’ say,

“I’m the master here tew day.”

Nov. 21, 1895

Pub. in Boston

Courier, Dec. 8,

     1895