"NELLIE"
When the fuse begins to sputter
You'd just bet your bread and butter;
You'd even bet the bacon and the beans.
But you'll be a heap the wiser
When you've mucked her out and tried her
And she's blasted all your hopes to smithereens.
Though you may
She won't feed your hungry belly
Without some color shining in the
y have named her Nellie
pan.
CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL
you'll have to write to Mable
or some grub to
While you're trying hard to be a mining man.
grace your
1948-1949-1950
Copyright 1948 by John Marshall Quirk
