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First Line: My grampa he's a-allus sayin'
Last Line: "old -- bob -- white!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Nature; Singing & Singers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


MY Grampa he's a-allus sayin',
"Sing a song o' cheer!" --
And wunst I says "What kind is them?"
He says, -- "The kind to hear. --
'Cause they're the songs that Nature sings,
In ever' bird that twitters!"
"Well, whipperwills and doves," says I,
"Hain't over-cheery critters!"
"Then don't you sing like them," he says --
"Ner guinny-hens, my dear --
Ner peafowls nuther (drat the boy!)
You sing a song o' cheer!"
I can't sing nothin' anyhow;
But, comin' home, to'rds night,
I kind o' sort o' kep' a-whistlin'
"Old -- Bob -- White!"





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