Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-09-22 | Page 3 | Wait till Your Pa Comes Home

oo WAIT TILL YOUR PA COMES HOME "Wait till your pa comes home," oh, dear! What i dreadful threat for a hoy to hear Yet never a boy of three or four But has heard it a thousand times or i more; ; "Wait till your pa comes home, my And sec what you'll get for being bad, "Wait till your pa comes home, you scamp, You've soiled the walls with your fingers fin-gers damp. You've tracked the floor with your muddy feet ill And fought with the boy across the street; 9H You've torn vour clothes and you look l '11 a sight' ' But wait till your pa comes home to- Now since I'm the pa of that dally ;l ll threat j j Which paints me as black as a thing of I rise in protest right here to say j I won't be used in osfierce a way; ,,'1 No child of mine in the evening gloam I Shall be afraid of my coming home. j I want him waiting for me at night With ees that glisten with real dp- light: When it's right that punished my boy should be y, f H I don't want the job postponed for me. I want to come home to a round of joy And not to frighten a little boy. "Wail till you pa comes home'" Oh, dear, What a dreadful threat for a boy to J hear I" ' jl Yet that Is ever a mother's way 1 Of sa ing herst If from a bitter day; And well she knows in the evening gloam That he won't be hurt when his pa comes home. , iin