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NAMING HIM by BURGES JOHNSON

First Line: YOU'D THINK, WHILE THEY'RE TRYING TO FIND ME A NAME
Last Line: MEANWHILE THEY FORGET THAT I HAVEN'T BEEN FED!
Subject(s): BABIES; NAMES; PARENTS; INFANTS; PARENTHOOD;

You'd think, while they're trying to find me a name
That I'd have a right to a part in the game!
Through most of the morning my father has said
Just nothing but Aaron, while mother, instead,
Would settle @3her@1 family name on my head;
Meanwhile they forget that I haven't been fed!



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