Gershon Wolf Poet Ballad

Civil War Song Revisited

To the melody of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again..."

When Father comes marching home again,
  Oh, no! Oh, no!
He'll give me a helluva spanking again,
  Oh no! Oh, no!
All the screaming I do
 Will never get through
  To Father's closed ear,
   Cuz it's perfectly clear:
That this 
 hurts -
  him -
   more -
   than -
    It'll ever hurt me,
  --Than it'll ever hurt me.  

Most of the time
  He's a kind man,
  My dad, he is.
At work they all say
  That he's more than ok
  Hurray!  Hurray!
But when I do something wrong
 It doesn't take long
  For him to turn
   On a slow burn
And take off his belt
 To give me a pelt
  On the back of my seat,
   So I can't sit down for a week---
Yet it 
 hurts - 
  him - 
   more - 
    than
     It'll ever hurt me.
   --Than it'll ever hurt me.

Now I'm a new dad,
 I've got me a son,
  Hurrah!  Hurrah!
I only hope that he'll not
 Call me father, but 'Pa;'
   Oh, 'pa!' Oh, 'pa!'
So I gotta be strong when he does wrong
 Not raise my hand and keep my belt on
  Cuz 
   then
    it' -
     ll - 
     ne -
      ver 
      Ever hurt him or hurt me.
      It'll never hurt him or hurt me.

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