The Good Boy

(Lemuel F. Parton)



I have led a good life, full of peace and quiet

I shall have an old age, full of rum and riot.

I have been a good boy, wed to work and study

I shall be an old man, ribald coarse and bloody.



I have never slit throats, even when I yearned to.

Never sang dirty songs that my fancy turned to.

I have been a nice boy, and done what was expected

I shall die and old bum, loved but unrespected.



Recorded by Carl Sandburg

@moral @age

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