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Show J 'i i BON VOYAGE Uj BertOD Braley Goodby, old friend. You needn't look astounded And ask me why I speak In accents glum Mv sorrow is exceedingly well-founded. ThlnKs will In .ilf.r.'l In the dfiys to come. For you're engaged a girl lias com between us! uh yes, you think that all will be the same. But it's not true, you're In the spell of Venus, And life henceforth will be an altered al-tered game. Goodby, old friend, no, I'm not Jealous of you, , I dlln't wnnt in win hr for myself I'm glad you've got so nice a girl to love you Belter true love than hc-ips of golden gold-en pelf. But this I know, I've lost my pal forever. for-ever. Xo matter how intensely vou deny. Friendship we'll keep, but comradeship comrade-ship ah. never; I chum, good by! Your friends are hers, she says" I do not doubt it. She means it. too. I know, but1 none the less, A wife's a wife, there's no two way. , about it. And though she'll want to aid your happiness, Somehow she'll n er look at me as you do, She'll chance you, too. for that s a woman's trend, Marriage, you know, is .-hum-ship' hoodoo. Goodby, old friend! (Copyright, 1922, NEA Service) |