Kep’ chokin’ fer a minute.
The lilock blossoms wuz in blow,
So sweet, with dewdrops beaded;
I handed ’im a bunch, an’ Joe
No other answer needed.
The year it passed, the war wuz come,
The soldiers fast enrollin’;
I heard the beatin’ of the drum,
I thought like church-bell tollin’.
I stood beside the lilock bush,