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Thread #161800   Message #3848976
Posted By: Joe Offer
06-Apr-17 - 03:10 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Down in the Lehigh Valley...(poem)
Subject: ADD: Down in Lehigh Valley II
We ain't done yet.

DOWN IN LEHIGH VALLEY II

The following parody on the pathetic recitation "Down
in Lehigh Valley" is perhaps better known in the jungles
than the original. The setting is in a small town public
privy.

Don't move over, stranger;
I won't-------on your seat
Nor-------on the coat that's on yer back
Nor the shoes that's on yer feet.

Down in the Lehigh Valley,
Me and my pal, Bill,
Pimped three years for a callhouse
And the work was all uphill.

We had a girl named Nellie,
And she was some high flyer;
She had Bright's disease
And you couldn't satisfy 'er.

Along come a guy from the city
Handsome and smooth and rich,
And he stole away our Nellie;
The blue-------son of a -------!

Now, God be with you, stranger,
And I'll be on my way,
I'll hunt the runt that stole my -------
If it takes till Judgment Day.

Hobo's Hornbook, pp 52-53