My mother she has special words She's alwuz usin', but I find The ones that I've most often heard Is By-um-by and Never-mind. Whenever I can't have my way An' beg her "when?" and tease her "why?" The things she's likeliest to say Is Never-mind and By-um-by. An when our picnic stopped becuz It rained, er sumpin' of the kind, The only things she told us was Jus' By-um-by an' Never-mind. I as't when By-um-by would be, She told me "Never-mind!" so I Said "What is Never-mind?" an' she Said I'd discover, By-um-by. My mother she has special words For question-answerin' an' such, But I guess some that I have heard Don't really mean so awful much. |