ALL my feelin's in the Spring Gits so blame contrary, I can't think of anything Only me and Mary! "Me and Mary!" all the time, "Me and Mary!" like a rhyme, Keeps a-dingin' on till I'm Sick o' "Me and Mary!" "Me and Mary! Ef us two Only was together -- Playin' like we used to do In the Aprile weather!" All the night and all the day I keep wishin' thataway Till I'm gittin' old and gray Jes' on "Me and Mary!" Muddy yit along the pike Sence the Winter's freezin', And the orchard's back'ard-like Bloomin' out this season; Only heerd one bluebird yit -- Nary robin ner tomtit; What's the how and why of it? 'Spect it's "Me and Mary!" Me and Mary liked the birds -- That is, @3Mary@1 sort o' Liked 'em first, and afterwards, W'y, I thought @3I'd@1 ort 'o. And them birds -- ef Mary stood Right here with me, like she should -- They'd be singin', them birds would, All fer me and Mary. Birds er not, I'm hopin' some I can git to plowin'! Ef the sun'll only come, And the Lord allowin', Guess to-morry I'll turn in And git down to work ag'in; This here loaferin' won't win, Not fer me and Mary! Fer a man that loves, like me, And 's afeard to name it, Till some other feller, he Gits the girl -- dad-shame-it! Wet er dry, er cloud er sun -- Winter gone er jes' begun -- Outdoor work fer me er none, No more "Me and Mary!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CAVALIER TUNES: BOOT AND SADDLE by ROBERT BROWNING THE RUINED MAID by THOMAS HARDY TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON by RICHARD LOVELACE SONNET TO HOPE by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL KING PHILIP'S MEN by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN |