I guess she must of just got out of bed—

It seemed to me her nose looked kind of red;

They was a little wad of hair that hung

Down in a pigtail on her back; she brung

A telegram out to the door, and said:

“Well, get a move—good Heavens, are you dead?”

Somehow she didn’t seem to look so young.

I can’t help kind of wonderin’ to-day

What made her look so queer; it seems as though

There’s something that is gone. I’d like to know