So don’t go fer to ask o’ me
What I thinks o’ reorganization;
Cause I’ve been through the game
An’ know it beats tarnation.
REGRET 1909
Now that the Summer time has came, and Winter dark has went,
We’ll stay indoors from nine to five, do penance and repent,
That we so rashly took the veil and swore to serve the King,
When we could have broken stones or done some other easy thing;