Show J Just US Folks s By Ed Edgar ar A. A Guest TIlE THE ETERNAL JAL YOUNG Little Miss Muffet is eating her whey Little Jack Horner homer is thumbing his pie Happy and youthful as ever are they Very much older and w weathered weathered ath- ath ered am I. I The of Simon his penny demands Still after water are young Jack and Jill Though grandpa must do as the doctor commands The nursery children are little folk still Little Boy Blue at the noon of or orthe the day Sleeps as of old by his tossed tossed- aside horn And just as they were in the years far away Are sheep in the meadow anc and cows In the corn The years I confess have played havoc with me For many the changes that ups grown-ups attain But for the grandson who climbs on my knee The Mother Goose children hearted gay-hearted remain Co Copyright 1941 Edgar A. A Guest |