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2nd verse - see next page

Bald head men and other sojourners
Who spend their time at drug-store corners
To watch the shebas tripping by
Looking "come hither" out your eye
I got great comfort for you too
It isn't hard for you to do.
Please keep your seats! Don't crowd and push
Don't kill mo blind men in the rush
Just take a lesson from Coué
And do your dozen every day.

CHORUS:
Skirt by skirt on every flirt
They're getting higher and higher,
Inch by inch they cling and pinch
There's more to admire
Sock by sock and knee by knee
The more they show the more we see
Hour by hour and day by day
Let's hope that things keep on this way.
Oh, Coue', Coue', Coue'
Let's pray this every day.

----ZORA NEALE HURSTON.