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I let myself in at the kitchen door	A
It's you she said I can't get up Forgive me	B
Not answering your knock I can no more	A
Let people in than I can keep them out	C
I'm getting too old for my size I tell them	D
My fingers are about all I've the use of	E
So's to take any comfort I can sew	F
I help out with this beadwork what I can	G
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That's a smart pair of pumps you're beading there	H
Who are they for	A
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You mean oh for some miss	I
I can't keep track of other people's daughters	J
Lord if I were to dream of everyone	K
Whose shoes I primped to dance in	L
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And where's John	M
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Haven't you seen him Strange what set you off	N
To come to his house when he's gone to yours	O
You can't have passed each other I know what	P
He must have changed his mind and gone to Garlands	O
He won't be long in that case You can wait	Q
Though what good you can be or anyone	K
It's gone so far You've heard Estelle's run off	N
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Yes what's it all about When did she go	F
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Two weeks since	O
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She's in earnest it appears	O
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I'm sure she won't come back She's hiding somewhere	H
I don't know where myself John thinks I do	R
He thinks I only have to say the word	S
And she'll come back But bless you I'm her mother	T
I can't talk to her and Lord if I could	U
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It will go hard with John What will he do	R
He can't find anyone to take her place	O
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Oh if you ask me that what will he do	R
He gets some sort of bakeshop meals together	T
With me to sit and tell him everything	V
What's wanted and how much and where it is	O
But when I'm gone of course I can't stay here	W
Estelle's to take me when she's settled down	X
He and I only hinder one another	T
I tell them they can't get me through the door though	F
I've been built in here like a big church organ	K
We've been here fifteen years	O
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That's a long time	Y
To live together and then pull apart	Z
How do you see him living when you're gone	A2
Two of you out will leave an empty house	O
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I don't just see him living many years	O
Left here with nothing but the furniture	T
I hate to think of the old place when we're gone	A2
With the brook going by below the yard	B2
And no one here but hens blowing about	C
If he could sell the place but then he can't	C2
No one will ever live on it again	D2
It's too run down This is the last of it	E2
What I think he will do is let things smash	F2
He'll sort of swear the time away He's awful	G2
I never saw a man let family troubles	O
Make so much difference in his man's affairs	O
He's just dropped everything He's like a child	H2
I blame his being brought up by his mother	T
He's got hay down that's been rained on three times	O
He hoed a little yesterday for me	B
I thought the growing things would do him good	U
Something went wrong I saw him throw the hoe	F
Sky high with both hands I can see it now	I2
Come here I'll show you in that apple tree	B
That's no way for a man to do at his age	J2
He's fifty five you know if he's a day	K2
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Aren't you afraid of him What's that gun for	A
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Oh that's been there for hawks since chicken time	Y
John Hall touch me Not if he knows his friends	O
I'll say that for him John's no threatener	A
Like some men folk No one's afraid of him	L2
All is he's made up his mind not to stand	M2
What he has got to stand	M2
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Where is Estelle	N2
Couldn't one talk to her What does she say	K2
You say you don't know where she is	O
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Nor want to	R
She thinks if it was bad to live with him	L2
It must be right to leave him	L2
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Which is wrong	O2
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Yes but he should have married her	A
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I know	F
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The strain's been too much for her all these years	O
I can't explain it any other way	K2
It's different with a man at least with John	M
He knows he's kinder than the run of men	D2
Better than married ought to be as good	U
As married that's what he has always said	P2
I know the way he's felt but all the same	Q2
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I wonder why he doesn't marry her	A
And end it	E2
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Too late now she wouldn't have him	L2
He's given her time to think of something else	O
That's his mistake The dear knows my interest	R2
Has been to keep the thing from breaking up	S2
This is a good home I don't ask for better	A
But when I've said 'Why shouldn't they be married '	-
He'd say 'Why should they ' no more words than that	T2
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And after all why should they John's been fair	A
I take it What was his was always hers	O
There was no quarrel about property	B
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Reason enough there was no property	B
A friend or two as good as own the farm	U2
Such as it is It isn't worth the mortgage	V2
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I mean Estelle has always held the purse	O
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The rights of that are harder to get at	T2
I guess Estelle and I have filled the purse	O
'Twas we let him have money not he us	O
John's a bad farmer I'm not blaming him	L2
Take it year in year out he doesn't make much	W2
We came here for a home for me you know	F
Estelle to do the housework for the board	X2
Of both of us But look how it turns out	C
She seems to have the housework and besides	O
Half of the outdoor work though as for that	T2
He'd say she does it more because she likes it	E2
You see our pretty things are all outdoors	O
Our hens and cows and pigs are always better	A
Than folks like us have any business with	Y2
Farmers around twice as well off as we	B
Haven't as good They don't go with the farm	U2
One thing you can't help liking about John	M
He's fond of nice things too fond some would say	K2
But Estelle don't complain she's like him there	A
She wants our hens to be the best there are	A
You never saw this room before a show	F
Full of lank shivery half drowned birds	O
In separate coops having their plumage done	K
The smell of the wet feathers in the heat	Z2
You spoke of John's not being safe to stay with	Y2
You don't know what a gentle lot we are	A
We wouldn't hurt a hen You ought to see us	O
Moving a flock of hens from place to place	O
We're not allowed to take them upside down	X
All we can hold together by the legs	O
Two at a time's the rule one on each arm	U2
No matter how far and how many times	O
We have to go	F
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You mean that's John's idea	A3
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And we live up to it or I don't know	F
What childishness he wouldn't give way to	R
He manages to keep the upper hand	M2
On his own farm He's boss But as to hens	O
We fence our flowers in and the hens range	B3
Nothing's too good for them We say it pays	O
John likes to tell the offers he has had	C3
Twenty for this cock twenty five for that	T2
He never takes the money If they're worth	D3
That much to sell they're worth as much to keep	E3
Bless you it's all expense though Reach me down	X
The little tin box on the cupboard shelf	F3
The upper shelf the tin box That's the one	K
I'll show you Here you are	A
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What's this	O
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A bill	G3
For fifty dollars for one Langshang cock	H3
Receipted And the cock is in the yard	B2
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Not in a glass case then	D2
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He'd need a tall one	K
He can eat off a barrel from the ground	I3
He's been in a glass case as you may say	K2
The Crystal Palace London He's imported	J3
John bought him and we paid the bill with beads	O
Wampum I call it Mind we don't complain	K3
But you see don't you we take care of him	L2
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And like it too It makes it all the worse	O
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It seems as if And that's not all he's helpless	O
In ways that I can hardly tell you of	E
Sometimes he gets possessed to keep accounts	O
To see where all the money goes so fast	L3
You know how men will be ridiculous	O
But it's just fun the way he gets bedeviled	M3
If he's untidy now what will he be	B
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It makes it all the worse You must be blind	N3
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Estelle's the one You needn't talk to me	B
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Can't you and I get to the root of it	E2
What's the real trouble What will satisfy her	A
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It's as I say she's turned from him that's all	O3
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But why when she's well off Is it the neighbours	O
Being cut off from friends	O
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We have our friends	O
That isn't it Folks aren't afraid of us	O
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She's let it worry her You stood the strain	K3
And you're her mother	A
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But I didn't always	O
I didn't relish it along at first	P3
But I got wonted to it And besides	O
John said I was too old to have grandchildren	K
But what's the use of talking when it's done	K
She won't come back it's worse than that she can't	C2
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Why do you speak like that What do you know	F
What do you mean she's done harm to herself	F3
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I mean she's married married someone else	O
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Oho oho	F
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You don't believe me	B
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Yes I do	R
Only too well I knew there must be something	V
So that was what was back She's bad that's all	O3
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Bad to get married when she had the chance	O
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Nonsense See what's she done But who who	R
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Who'd marry her straight out of such a mess	O
Say it right out no matter for her mother	A
The man was found I'd better name no names	O
John himself won't imagine who he is	O
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Then it's all up I think I'll get away	K2
You'll be expecting John I pity Estelle	N2
I suppose she deserves some pity too	R
You ought to have the kitchen to yourself	F3
To break it to him You may have the job	Q3
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You needn't think you're going to get away	K2
John's almost here I've had my eye on someone	K
Coming down Ryan's Hill I thought 'twas him	L2
Here he is now This box Put it away	K2
And this bill	G3
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What's the hurry He'll unhitch	R3
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No he won't either He'll just drop the reins	O
And turn Doll out to pasture rig and all	O3
She won't get far before the wheels hang up	S2
On something there's no harm See there he is	O
My but he looks as if he must have heard	S
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John threw the door wide but he didn't enter	A
How are you neighbour Just the man I'm after	A
Isn't it Hell he said I want to know	F
Come out here if you want to hear me talk	S3
I'll talk to you old woman afterward	S
I've got some news that maybe isn't news	O
What are they trying to do to me these two	R
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Do go along with him and stop his shouting	V
She raised her voice against the closing door	A
Who wants to hear your news you dreadful fool	T3