Show 1 1 r By Edgar Just J U S t F O 0 1 K S A. A Guest I GET A 1 MICHIGAN AN CANE Id I'd just settled down for an afternoon nap When hard at the door came d a tap rap-a-tap-tap So I strolled from my couch and descended to see Whatever the cause of the summons could be And there on my porch were photographers two With cameras and plates and a man that I knew And two pretty girls who said Let uLet us explain Weve We've come here to give you a Michigan cane Please come and receive it The cameras clicked Ere I could ask why for the gift I was picked I r ventured to say I I presume you all know That Nellie ellie and I twenty eight years ago agoTo agoTo agoTo To the day were united in marriage and so You come on the old guy a cane to Well Wen its it's nice Dice to be chosen a present to get But a cane Im I'm not even a granddaddy yeti yetla Oh this is a cane of distinction they cried Its one that we hope you will carry earry with pride In Iii fact its it's a sort of oC a key ley to the state It will let you OU walk free through a turnstile or gate And if you could take it with y you u when you OU die St. St Peter would see it and let you go b by So Im I'm writing these lines just a little bit vain For Fo or haying having be beer een en given ghe s Michigan hi cano cane I IL i L. L |