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20 Mar 23 - 03:43 PM (#4168066) Subject: Lyr Add: Dear Aunt May From: Joe Offer 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 |
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20 Mar 23 - 08:03 PM (#4168097) Subject: ADD: An Excuse From: Joe Offer 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 |
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21 Mar 23 - 03:51 PM (#4168193) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Dear Aunt May / An Excuse From: MudGuard is the fourth line correct? I am no native English/American/... speaker, but I'd expect "called" instead of "call". |
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21 Mar 23 - 03:53 PM (#4168194) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Dear Aunt May / An Excuse From: MudGuard 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 ...) |
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21 Mar 23 - 04:02 PM (#4168197) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Dear Aunt May / An Excuse From: Joe Offer 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- |
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21 Mar 23 - 05:29 PM (#4168210) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Dear Aunt May / An Excuse From: leeneia Thanks, Joe. And Jim, too. |