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Jack's dead an' buried it seems odd	A
A deep hole covered up with sod	A
Lyin' out there on the hill	B
An' Jack as never could keep still	B
A sleepin' in it Jack could race	C
And do it at a good old pace	C
Could sing a song an' laugh so hard	D
That I could hear him in our yard	D
When he was half a mile away	E
Why not another boy could play	E
Like him or run or jump so high	F
Or swim no matter how he'd try	F
An' I can't get it through my head	G
At all at all that Jack is dead	G
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Jack's mother didn't use to be	H
So awful good to him and me	H
For often when I'd go down there	I
On Saturdays when it was fair	I
To get him out to fish or skate	J
She'd catch me hangin' round the gate	J
And look as cross as some old hen	K
An' tell me Go off home again	K
It's not the thing for boys she'd say	E
A hangin' round the creek all day	E
You go off home and do your task	L
No Jack can't go you needn't ask	L
And when he got in scrapes why she	H
Would up and lay it on to me	H
An' wish I lived so far away	E
Jack couldn't see me every day	E
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But last night when I'd done the chores	M
It seemed so queer like out of doors	M
I kept a listenin' all the while	N
An' looking down the street a mile	N
I couldn't bear to go inside	O
The house is lonesome since he died	O
The robber book we read by turns	P
Is lyin' there an' no boy learns	P
All by himself 'cause he can't tell	Q
How many words he'll miss or spell	Q
Unless there's some one lookin' on	R
To laugh at him when he gets done	S
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An' neighbor women's sure to come	T
A visitin' a feller's home	U
An' talkin' when they look at me	H
'Bout how thick us two used to be	H
A stealin' off from school an' such	V
An' askin' do I miss him much	V
'Till I sneak off out doors you see	H
They just can't let a feller be	H
Well I walked down the road a bit	W
Smith's dog came out I throwed at it	W
An' do you know it never howled	X
Same as it always did or growled	X
It seemed to say Why Jim's alone	Y
I wonder where's that other one	S
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Afore I knew it I was down	Z
'Way at the other end of town	Z
A hangin' round in the old way	E
For someone to come out and play	E
There wasn't no one there to look	A2
So I slipped into our old nook	A2
I found his knife down in the grass	B2
Where we'd been Zulus at the pass	B2
The can of bait the hook and line	C2
Were lyin' with the ball of twine	C2
An' Jim I seemed to hear him say	E
The fish will suffer some to day	E
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'Twas more than I could stand just then	K
I got up to go off home when	K
Someone kissed me on the cheek	D2
An' hugged me so I couldn't speak	D2
You wouldn't believe it like as not	E2
But 'twas Jack's mother an' a lot	E2
Of great big tears came stealin' down	Z
Right on my face She didn't frown	Z
A single bit kept sayin' low	F2
My blue eyed boy I loved you so	F2
Of course I knew just right away	E
That she meant Jack My eyes are gray	E
But Jack he had the bluest eyes	G2
Blue like you see up in the skies	G2
An' shine that used to come and go	F2
One misses eyes like his you know	F2
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An' by an' by she up an' tried	O
To tell me that she'd cried an' cried	O
A thinkin' of the times that she	H
Had scolded Jack an' scolded me	H
An' other things that I won't tell	Q
To anyone because Oh well	Q
Boys can't do much but they can hold	H2
Tight on to secrets till they're old	H2
She's Jack's relation that's why she	H
Feels kind of lovin' like to me	H
But when she called me her own lad	I2
Oh say I felt just awful bad	I2
My head it went round in a whirl	J2
I up an' cried just like a girl	J2
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But say if Jack could see us two	K2
He'd laugh a little don't you know	F2
For if I'd ever brag around	L2
That I'd lick some one safe an' sound	L2
He'd laugh an' say Jim hold your jaw	M2
You know you're scared to death of maw	M2
Oh I'd give all this world away	E
If I could hear him laugh to day	E
I get so lonesome it's so still	B
An' him out sleepin' on that hill	B
There's nothin' seems just worth the while	N
A doin' up in the old style	N
'Cause everything we used to do	K2
Seemed allus just to need us two	K2
My throat aches till I think 'twill crack	N2
I don't know why it must be Jack	N2
There ain't no fun there ain't no stir	O2
His mother well it's hard on her	O2
But she can knit an' sew an' such	V
Oh she can't miss him half as much	V

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