There’s one what we tied to-day;

And caused six hours’ delay.

[Pg 26] “Two hundred seventy-nine, all told, And I knows their history; And I’m most attached to a break we patched In the winter of ’eighty-three.

[Pg 26]

“Two hundred seventy-nine, all told,

And I knows their history;

In the winter of ’eighty-three.

 “For every time that knot comes round It sings out, ‘Howdy, Bill! We’ll walk ’em home to-night, old man, From here to the Ferris Wheel.

“For every time that knot comes round

It sings out, ‘Howdy, Bill!

From here to the Ferris Wheel.

 “‘We’ll walk ’em in the rush hours, Bill, A swearing company, As we’ve walked ’em, Bill, since I was tied, In the winter of ’eighty-three.’”

“‘We’ll walk ’em in the rush hours, Bill,

A swearing company,

In the winter of ’eighty-three.’”

  The muddy guy with the fishy eye Let fall another tear. “Them knots is wife and child to me; I’ve known ’em forty year.

Let fall another tear.

“Them knots is wife and child to me;

I’ve known ’em forty year.

 “For I am the guy with the fishy eye And the think tank filled with dope, Whose work is to watch the lovely botch That’s known as the Clark Street Rope.”

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