Show J Just U St S t F Folks o 0 1 k S A. A By Guest Edgar PREDICAMENT A most unhappy man I am And so I sing this doleful ballad We should have had a crown of lamb With alligator pear for saIad salad When friends are coming in to dine She always lights the board with candles candIes Gets out her stock of linen fine And bouillon cups with gilded i handles But to a plain old fashioned meal Wed We'd settled down and started eating Alarmed I heard the door bell peal Then voices of a friendly greeting Oh troubled little wife of mine Who could have dropped into the cellar I 11 I had invited them to dine That night and had forgot to tell her Only a woman can relate How horribly her nerves are shaken When she must pass to guests a plate O Of liver and of greasy bacon Too late for alligator pear T Too o late to have the table set full What miseries a wife must bear i 5 h has PM A Is b g 3 Q l i tJ j |