It's a sort of consolation,

As I sit, and fume, and frown,

That the greatest botheration

Of my life is out of town.

He who used to grind "She Wore a

Wreath of Roses" every day,

And "Selections from Dinorah,"

And—"Ta-ra-ra-Boom-de-ay."

With his execrable smiling,

And exasperating din,