====== #418 - Perhaps He's on the Railway ====== [[..:417:|prev]] | [[..:419:|next]] /*-20note-*/ *Composer: *Killian Jordan, 1871 *Also known as: *Perhaps She's On the Railway *[[/data/media/midi/418.mid|MIDI]] | ++show|\\ {{http://www.rollerorgans.com/mid2roll.php?cob=418&.gif?}}++ *[[:incipit]]: 511121111234233533132171765 *[[:incipit|Condensed Incipit]]: 51212342353132171765 *[[/cob_label/index.php|Print a Label]] *++Lyrics:|\\ Behold in me a wretched man,\\ Quite broken down by woe,\\ I've lost my wife and cannot find\\ Her anywhere I go;\\ At first she robb'd me of my heart\\ And now she's flown from me,\\ And taken all my furniture,\\ Wherever can she be?\\ \\ //chorus: //\\ Perhaps she's on the railway\\ With a swell so fair,\\ Perhaps she's up in a balloon,\\ Flying thro' the air,\\ Perhaps she's dead, perhaps alive,\\ Perhaps she's on the sea;\\ Perhaps she's gone to Brigham Young\\ A Mormonite to be.\\ \\ She read so much of Mormonites,\\ Of nothing else she'd talk,\\ And with a sanctified young chap\\ Each day she used to walk;\\ She said he was a Mormon saint\\ From far across the sea,\\ I have not seen her for a week,\\ Wherever can she be?\\ \\ She can't respect the marriage vows,\\ that faithfully she swore,\\ I only hope her Mormon spouse\\ Has fifty wives or more;\\ I hope he'll thrash her ev'ry night\\ when he comes home to tea,\\ I hope they'll always row and fight\\ Wherever they may be.\\ \\ I hope she'll have a lot of hungry,\\ Squalling brats to keep,\\ I hope they'll cry all night all night,\\ And never let her go to sleep,\\ I hope her chimneys all may smoke,\\ Her lodgers never pay,\\ And German bands and organ men\\ Annoy her all the day.\\ \\ If she is in the railway train\\ I hope that it will smash;\\ If up in a balloon I hope\\ She'll fall out with a crash;\\ If on the road to Salt Lake, then,\\ I hope she may get drowned,\\ Then I will get another wife,\\ And quickly, I'll be bound.\\ ++ *++Frank Dumont|{{search>"Frank Dumont" @cobs}}++ (1848-1919), 1871 Other arrangements are found by Charles McCarthy or C. Hunt.