====== #490 - I'll Get Rid of My Mother-in-Law ======
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  *Composer:
    *Charles H. Duncan, 1879
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If you please, some time since I was married\\
To a young and most beautiful girl;\\
But now I do wish I had tarried,\\
For my brain's in a terrible whirl.\\
Her mother, alas! is my torment;\\
She worries me out of my life;\\
My feelings are all in a foment,\\
From the trouble I have with my wife.\\
//spoken: //\\
Yes! I have had more trouble with that wife of mine than\\
one mortal can stand. Every time I wish any thing done to suit me,\\
her old woman always sticks in her gab.\\
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But I'll stand interferance no longer:\\
To me she's a terrible bore;\\
So now, on my life, I'll boss my own wife,\\
And get rid of my Mother-in-Law.\\
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I ne'er shall forget our first baby,\\
A bouncing, blue-eyed little boy;\\
The actions then of the old lady\\
Brough me torment instead of great joy.\\
The neighbors all said, "He's a darling,\\
The image of his pap-pap-pa."\\
The old woman she argued contrary,\\
And said he looked like his mamma.\\
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Yes! She swore he looked like his mamm; and I'll be --.\\
Well, he didn't look like like his mamma, nor any of her family,\\
but he was the perfect image of his papa.\\
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    *Charles H. Duncan, 1879