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Enough Rope/Chant for Dark Hours

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Chant for Dark Hours

SOME men, some men
Cannot pass a
  Book shop.
(Lady, make your mind up, and wait your life away.)

  Some men, some men
  Cannot pass a
  Crap game.
(He said he’d come at moonrise, and here’s another day!)

  Some men, some men
  Cannot pass a
  Bar-room.
(Wait about, and hang about, and that’s the way it goes.)

  Some men, some men
  Cannot pass a
  Woman.
(Heaven never send me another one of those!)

  Some men, some men
  Cannot pass a
  Golf course.
(Read a book, and sew a seam, and slumber if you can.)

  Some men, some men
  Cannot pass a
  Haberdasher’s.
(All your life you wait around for some damn man!)