Mine gracious, dot vos drue!

I dinks mine hed vas schplit abart,

He kicks oup sooch a touse:

But never mind; der poys vas few

Like dot young Yawcob Strauss.

He asks me questions, sooch as dese:

Who baints mine nose so red?

Who vas it cuts dot schmoodth blace oudt

Vrom der hair ubon mine hed?

Und where der plaze goes vrom der lamp