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DISPROVED by BURGES JOHNSON

First Line: PEOPLE TELL ME I MUST DO
Last Line: KEEPS ON GROWING THROUGH HIS HAIR.
Subject(s): BALDNESS; BOYS; FATHERS; GROWTH;

People tell me I must do
All the growing that I can;
For they say I'll soon be through—
I won't grow when I'm a man.

That is why I'm fed so much
Nasty stuff to make me grow,
Tapioca, squash and such;
But I don't believe it's so!

Daddy's old. @3He@1 won't be fed
Things for which he doesn't care.
Yet I notice that his head
Keeps on growing through his hair.



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