The Tie Divine

The Tie Divine Now, Jim and me ain't always Had the smilinest of times, Our weddin' bells rung long ago, "We've most forgot their chimes. We differ 'bout a lot of things In this here game of life, And I sometimes get to wishin' He'd got some other wife. Our neighbors there, the Johnsons, Have busted up for keeps; He goes around a whistlin', She says she never weeps. And Smithy he's got a bran new wife, The old one was a crank; So he is mighty happy, And he has the courts to thank. But Jim and me, we're dif rent, We got a lot of kids; We never could divide them up, The humane law forbids. Besides — there is the one that's gone! And when I think of him It makes me love his father, So I guess I'll stay with Jim. Shelley, Idaho Agnes Just Reid