IV.

I DON’T feel like I used to feel no more;

It seems as though I’d like to go away

From where the racket’s goin’ on all day,

And have her with me there, and she’d be sore

At that rich dude who meets her at the door

Back by the stage when she’s got through the play:

I wish that she’d get sweet on me and say

She never knew what lovin’ was before.

I’ve got a tooth-brush now, and every night