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MAIDEN'S CHOICE, by                    
First Line: Billy rides in a limousine
Last Line: When he hasn't asked me to?
Subject(s): Courtship; Men


Billy rides in a limousine,
Jack walks in the dusty way;
Billy has hair like a raven's wing
While Jack's is turning gray.

Billy's laughter is glad and free,
Jack's smile is grave and slow;
But Jack, he tells me of wonderful things,
Things Billy will never know.

Jack's brow bears the lines of years ill spent,
And Billy's is smooth and fair;
And Billy he swears that he loves me true,
And Jack, he doesn't care.

So I shall ride in the limousine,
As a sensible girl should do;
For why should I walk in the dust with Jack,
When he hasn't asked me to?





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