With the man that shot Sandy McGee;

Of the moon that was quietly sleeping

On the hill, when the time came to go;

Of the few baby peaks that were peeping

From under their bedclothes of snow;

Of that ride—that to me was the rarest;

Of—the something you said at the gate.

Ah, Joe, then I wasn’t an heiress

To “the best-paying lead in the State!”

Well, well, it’s all past; yet it’s funny