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By old Abie Goldstein's pawnshop

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By old Abie Goldstein's pawnshop
by Robert E. Howard

First published in The Collected Letters of Robert E. Howard, vol. 1 (2007), where it appears in a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. March 1929. Parody of “On the Road to Mandalay” by Rudyard Kipling.

1893960By old Abie Goldstein's pawnshopRobert E. Howard

By old Abie Goldstein’s pawn shop where the ghetto meets the quay
There’s a shabbis goy a waiting and I know she thinks of me.
For she sings a song in Yiddish as the synagogue bells say,
“Come you back you kosher soldier, come you back to Rachel Shea!
“Come you back to Rachel Shea where the cantors sing all day,
“Can’t you hear them all gevalting down along the Great White Way?
“Come you back to Rachel Shea, I hear the kibitzers say,
“Maybe gets him now a shikra, and the air he gives you, eh?”


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