Show Just Folks By EDGAR A. A GUEST 1 1 REPRESENTING BONAPARTE Invited to a a. costume ball ballI I sadly shake my ray head I cannot Imitate the great reat The livin living or the dead I cannot strut in knightly plumes Or medieval tin Un And will not go as Pierrot To make the people grin not for me to don the robes Of or prince or pope or king Such finery would make of ot meA mt me A miserable thing I cannot be a toreador With cap and cape and sword Nor bare my knees and feel at ease As some old English lord So when the evening conieS con I think Ill I'll sta stay at home instead And in my nightgown plain and white Ill I'll early go to bed chin Ill I'll tuck the covers neath my And locked in slumber deep Who ho will deny m my p claim that I IAm IAm IAm Am Bonaparte asleep Copyright 1935 Edgar A A. Guest |