Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1882-10-18
ALPENA WEEKLY ARGUS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE QUEEN or THE MAY.

AN AMERICAN VERSION, WITH HUMBLE APOLOGIES
TO MIR. TENNYsoN.
IA parody, written 10 suit the prevalent custom
in most large cities in this country of having
TO movo on the LIST of May
If you're waking, call me early, call me early
To-morow'll be the maddest time of all the mad
new year
OF all the sS mad new year, mother the widest
For we're all TO move on the First, mother, tc
move on the First of May!
There's many an awful muss, mother, but none
so bad as ours
For there's you and father and children six, and
dog and bird and flowers,
Not TO mention the cat and the kittens that were
born but yesterday,
And they've all to 90 on the First mother, tc
go on the First OF May.
shall sleep so sound tonight mother, although
it's on the floor,
That I'm very sure | shall never wake when the
truckmen come TO the door,
And they might carry me and the bed and Jenny
and Bob away,
If wasn't walked up in time, mother, to move
on the First OF May!
As Just came down the street, mother, whom
think you did see
But Robin, getting five-cent shine, and looking
He thought how nice looked, mother, in my
good clothes yesterday:
II.
after the First of May.
For my good clothes all are packed away, and so
is my best back hair;
And my patent frizzes are in some box, but L m
sure don't know where;
80 couldn't speak to Robin, but turned and
ian away,
For even pretty woman's guy on the eve of
the First OF May.
And l couldn't ask him in to tea, 10 sit on a
nd-fn fFnn
When Lnew that all the cake was gone, and the
last OF the tea was drunk,
And there isn't single chair in the house, and
the sofas sent away,
For we're all to, move on the First, mother, to
move on the First of May.
white meal bag bust out,
And old hoop,skirts and empty jars and papers
lie all about.
And as for old straw hats and shoes, there's a
dozen of each, | should say
But we're all to move on the First, mother, to
move on the First of May.
The parlor mirror has got a crack, and the Venus
has lost her nose
And Jenny has let fiat-iron fall on susy's dear
little toes
And Bob has cut, and Johnny burn, and
Tommy has run away
But we're all to move on the First, mother, to
move on the First of May.
And Bridget shall GO with me early tomorrow
morn
To get the other house to rights, though I must
say it's forlorn
To be moving in where the steps arnt done, nor
the masons gone away
But we've got to move on the First, mother, be-
cause it's the First of May.
They're still at work on the big front door, and
the whole place smells of paint
And the way the plumbers are dawdlinQ round il
enough to vex saint;
And the gas isu't in, or the kitchen range, and
the keys are all astray-
But we've got to move on the First mother to
move on the First of May!
And the baby's got the, measles, and I don't
think Jimmv's we'll
And what we're going to do if it rains, no mortal
power can tell!
I've tied the umbrellas up with the tones. and
:, they We all been packed away
fou can never find thing you want on the eve
of The First of May.
And Mrs. Jones will be coming in just as we are
. going out,
And everything will get all mixed up, 1 haven't
AS brother Bob would put it, there'll be 1.-THE
>, deuce to pay,
But whether you're ready or not, you know. YOU
must move on the FIRST of May.
So you must wake and call me carly, call me
early, mother dear;
be the widest time of all the wild
new year
To-morrow' Il be, of all the year. the hardest
kind of q day,
For sick or well, and ,rodther or no, we move on
the First of May.
Kate HlIdrd in Hdrper's Bdzar.