Job’s Comforter 1602 Grim trouble lasteth but a day Cheer up! Cheer up! ye blue ones! Let us be happy while we may: Grim trouble lasteth but a day Our sorrows soon will pass away, And then we’ll have some new ones! Grim trouble lasteth but a day Cheer up! Cheer up! ye blue ones! […]
Friday 3834 The flowers live by the tears that fall From the end face of the skies, And life would have no foys at all Were there no watery eyes Love thon thy sorrow: grief shall bring Its own excuse in after years; The rainbow! see how fair a thing God hath built up from […]
Looking for Trouble 4096 Yes, trouble is something that fow persons seek, But the lover who tries to secure A bride with much gold, “to have and to hold,” Is courting Miss Fortune, for sure
THE ROAD OF MY HEART’S DESIRE 4426 Here is the road of my Heart’s Desire! Ah, at last, will my glad feet go Swiftly out to the uttermost ends, Out where my fair dream-blossoms blow Fair is the road of my Heart’s Desire; Never were roses half so sweet As those that lure with their […]
The Promising West 2655 Talk about the land of this glorious Weat Where people are now rusning, their Intures to test There is where the land is now praised to the aktes: Bring forth your cheers for the sweet by and byes When all the gumbo hills be transferred into nelda Rain will fall in […]
Coating Thougts 1983 The little lad Is aught but sad With joy he’s quite athrin From wars to toes When swift he goes A-sliding down the hill But many times His wary groans outpop As back he slowly climbs Unto the top The man of biz Supremely is O’erjoyed when, with a will, He sings […]
Take a Trip in My Airship 3042 I have a sallor, the sailor loves me, And salls every night to my horie ile’s not a sailor that sails o’er the sea, Or over the wild briny foam For he owns an airship and sails upon high, He’s just like a bird on the wing And […]
Tuesday 2715 Just to trust, and yet to ask Guidance still; Take the training or the task, As he wil Just to take the loss or gain As he sends it; Just to take the joy or pain As he lends it
An Old- Fashion Girl 5821 Just an old-fashioned girl, of the kind that you know When your mothersat up to mend stockings for you With a ball of red yarn and a bag full of hose And a goose-eggish thing that slipped down in the toos Just an old-fashioned girl, of the kind that brings […]
The Present 1481 The Age of Gold,” they say Always, “is coming” Nay- Thus was the dream of old; This is the Age of Gold So shall tomorrow be Ever, if we but see! Look weto the light, and do Our best and so be true
HIS HIGHNESS HEIR-APPARENT OF TOMORROW 3902 I His Highness, heir-apparent morrow, of to- Has joined our happy circle; naked he came; And of his need he was constrained to borrow Ralment and food and shelter and a name A tiny prince, wing-borne o’er plain and billow, His eyes agleam with a seraphic fire I found […]
Flee as a Bird 5003 Flee as a bird to your mountain, Thou who art weary of sin: Go to the clear flowing fountain Where you may wash and be clean Fly for the avenger is near theo Call and the Savior will hear thea, He on his bosom will bear thee, Thou who art […]
The Country Store 1981 What times we have at the country store! We smoke, an’ spit on the floor While Smith weighs o our coffee and tea, An’ acts as pleasant as pleasant can be He’ll Noon become as rich as a jew, But I want to say, twixt me an’ you ‘At he hasn’t […]
LET US BE CHEERFUL 52810 Whining and crying Goodness defying Sets all the world sighing In garments of woe Smiling and singing, Happiness bringing, Sets all the world ringlug With joy and good cheer, Then let us be cheerful, Helping the tearful, The timid and fearful Along the rough way Angels will guard us God […]
Sweet Evelina 2126 Way down in the meadow Where the lily first blows, Where the winds from the mountain Never ruffles the rose Lives fond Evelina, the sweet little dove, The pride of the valley The girl that I love Chorus Sweet Evelina, dear Evelina, My love for thee will never, never dio (Repeat) She’s […]
Bloodhound 3693 Once, as a schoolboy, I was wont to dream Of ox eyed girls that Homer found so fair; Alas, in these dull days I wake to find The ox-eyed girls all have peroxide hair!
The Man In the Moon 5977 And the land of the South was by no means forgotten He passed with quick step thro’ the great fields of cotton To the rice and tobacco attention he gave, Then sat down to ponder, with countenance grave “I see what’s the matter,” he solemnly mused abused “The people […]
MOTHER’S SMILE 3995 When I bin swimmin’ all day lou, An’ had a fight or two, An’ come home in the ev’in’ time A-feelin’ mad and blue, There’s just one thing that always seems My angry thoughts to smother, An I fergit ’em when I лес The smilin face of mother “Often times I get […]
When the Cows Come Home Mrs Agnes E Mitchell 2242 With klingle, klangie, klingle, ‘Way down the dusky dingle The cows are coming home; Now, sweet and clear, and faint and low, The alry tinkiings come and go Like chimings from some far oft tower Or patterings of fan an April April shower That makes […]
The Boy on the Farm 1766 I’ve put away my tired skates, My sled is on the “bum” My overshoes I’ll need no more I’m glad ‘at summer’s come I’ve got a bran-new jack-knife- I’ll make the whistles hum; I know just where the willows grow- I’m glad ‘at summer’s come The cows down in […]