Show the old man be kind to your daddy 0 gambol ing youth his feet are now sluggish and cold intent on your pleasures you dont see tho the truth which is that youn your lads dads growing old ah ali once ho he could whip forty bushels of snakes but now he lie is spavined and lame his hi joints aro are nil all rusty and tortured with aches and weary and worn is his frame ho ile toiled tolled and ho lie slaved like a government mule to see that his kids had a chance ho fed fod them and clothed thorn and sent them to school rejo rejoiced leed when he lie marked their advance adva tho the landscape ii in moist with the billows billous of sweat ho lie cheerfully shed as ho he toiled tolled to bring up his children and keep heep out of debt and see sea that the homo home kettle boiled ho ile dressed in old duds that his mary alary and jako jake might bloom liko like tho the rose roses in june and oft when you swallowed our porterhouse steak our daddy was cho chewing a prune and now that hes worn by his burden of care just show you are worth all he lie did look out for his comfort and hand him his ills chair and hang up his slicker and lid walt mason |