Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Irving Berlin
Canonical path: /irving-berlin/my-little-book-of-poetry
Related lyric paths: 6
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My Little Book Of Poetry
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My Little Book Of Poetry
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[Verse:]
Some folks who don't know what to do with their evenings
Up till dawn with their dress clothes on they will roam
Dancing 'round in a Cabaret
Homeward bound at the break of day
I have found that it doesn't pay
So I'd rather stay at home
[Refrain:]
With my little book of poetry
Let me while the hours away
Reading the poets of olden times
Meeting the girls they dressed up in rhymes
I will never ask for company
When the skies of blue turn to gray
Mister Kipling and Poe are the best friends I know
At the end of a weary day
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