Nancy MacIntyre
Nancy MacIntyre
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and left me,
I can't plan just what to do.
Saw Tom Frothingham this mornin',
He says Johnson's gone off, too.
My old mother used to tell me,
When I lagged at any task,
"Keep on working, do no shirking,
You will bring the thing to pass."
That advice has been my motto:
Everything that I've begun,
I've stayed with it, sick or weary,
Till the job was squarely done.
But this case is kind o' different;
Though I ain't the kind that grieves,
How you goin' to work that motto
When the job gets up and leaves?
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S'pose, in thinkin' and decidin', I refuse to do my part;-- Just sit down and let my mem'ry Finish breaking up my heart-- S'pose I give up like a coward, Let the world say I ain't game, 'Cause by leavin' I should forfeit My poor eighty-acre claim. I ain't 'fraid to do my duty If I'm clear what it's about, But this scrape is so peculiar That my mind's smoked up with doubt. I believe that Nancy loves me, And it may be she'll stay true; But I wonder why the blazes That durn Jo
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