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Jim Lucas found this in the book "Songs of the Western Colleges" (page 160).

DEAR AUNT MAY
(Music by Walter Howe Jones)

I went to Hobbs the other day
And said "Professor I'm going away,
'Twill not be long that I shall stay,
I'm called by the sickness of Dear Aunt May."
"Yes, yes, too bad, indeed I see,
I've had the same thing happen to me;
But a note I've made in this little book here,
Says your dear Aunt May died sometime last year."

"It's somewhat singular, don't you know,
For you not to remember a year ago
When you for excuses then applied,
That you might visit the loved one's side.
How you stayed two weeks, came back and said,
With tears in your eyes that Aunt May was dead.
Most any excuse I'll be glad to grant,
But you'll have to invent another aunt."

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