Lyr Add: Dear Aunt May / An Excuse

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Dear Aunt May / An Excuse
From: leeneia
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 05:29 PM

Thanks, Joe. And Jim, too.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Dear Aunt May / An Excuse
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 04:02 PM

Hi, MudGuard. I think both of my transcriptions are exact. The Hamiltonian, source of the second transcription, was not very good. But when I transcribe, I do an exact transcription and do not attempt to correct the source.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Dear Aunt May / An Excuse
From: MudGuard
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 03:53 PM

Sorry, sent too early.

my annotation means the second post - the first has "called" there (and I didn't see that till after my post went off too early ...)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Dear Aunt May / An Excuse
From: MudGuard
Date: 21 Mar 23 - 03:51 PM

is the fourth line correct?

I am no native English/American/... speaker, but I'd expect "called" instead of "call".

Subject: ADD: An Excuse
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Mar 23 - 08:03 PM

AN EXCUSE

I went to Hops the other day
And said, "Professor I'm going away
'Twill not be long that I shall stay
I'm call 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 some time 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 staid 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.

J.R.B., '98

Hamiltonian

Subject: Lyr Add: Dear Aunt May
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Mar 23 - 03:43 PM

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hamiltonian/GCMTAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22with+tears+in+your+eyes+that+Aunt+may%22&pg=PA141&printsec=frontcover

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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