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Show 1 rby WILBUR D NE.PBIT "PURX t Mm piiiiiCiiiii Piiisiiiiiira Here's ol' winter purt' nlgli gone! Seems like time goes mlslity fast-Hardly fast-Hardly Kit yer ear-tabs on Tell th' winter days Is past. When I wuz a little tyke. Laws! th' winters lasted then-Snow then-Snow heaped up an' hid th pike. Thawed, then snow an' drift again. Ain't no winter time no more (Nor no summer, fer's that goes!) We've hed winters, though, before. I remember when things froze Tight ez wax! An' Christmas time Wuzn't near to half-way through. We hed winter, sure ez I'm Settin' here a-tellln' you. Winter? W'y, It don't half-start Nowadays, ontell It's done. Can't know half th" months apart Lately, by th way they run. No, sir. Times ain't whut they wum In th' years I use to know; Days an' Reasons fairly buzz An they use' to move so slow. Summer? Huh! When I wuz young Summer wuz a time wuth while Games wuz played, an son?s wuz sung, Ever' mornln' wore a smile. Now what is our summer? Say, It ain't wuth a thought, -at all. While you're sayln "Yesterday" It's tomorrer an' It's fall! Here's ol' winter purt' nigh gone 'Fore you know it's here, it's went. Seems-like time keeps whlzzln' on Tell not half o' It is spent. World's too busy now. I'd like To be back whur time went slow-When slow-When I's jest a little tyke. An' ther' wan't no long ago. |