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THEY SAY I'M TOO LITTLE FOR ANY THING!, by                    
First Line: From a child I've been subject to strife
Last Line: Altho' I'm too little for anything!
Subject(s): Fortune;size & Shape


From a child I've been subject to strife,
My unlucky form seems to fit ill;
For I never could get me a wife,
Because I'm so ugly and little!
I'm one of those unthriving roots,
Such a poor bandy-legg'd skinny thing,
That I'm scarcely four feet in my boots,
So they say I'm too little for anything!

* * *

I courted a lass six feet high,
But fun folks would at me be pitching;
They'd say she was up in the sky,
While I was below in the kitchen;
Then out the boys after us ran,
And, shouting aloud, thus would many sing.
O! there goes a queer little man,
Don't you think he's too little for anything?

* * *

For a soldier poor me she forsook,
For he well knew the way how to flatter her;
Then a-courting I went to a cook,
As tall as a giant, and fatterer, --
In nine months she'd got -- what a go!
A poor little dumpy and skinny thing;
Said I was its father, although
You know I'm too little for anything!

She vow'd that I for it should pay,
Her words did me greatly agitate,
So the beadle came to me next day,
And hiked me away to the magistrate;
Says his worship, your words, Miss, give o'er,
From this youth your tricks will not a penny wring,
He can't be its father, I'm sure,
Because he's too little for anything!

So single I fear I must go,
Scorn'd by the young and the beautiful,
Would some lady pity my woe,
I'd ever be tender and dutiful.
When married -- what joy 'would impart,
When around us time youngsters would many bring,
For I vow that I'd e'er do my part,
Altho' I'm too little for anything!





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