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A Ballad Apout de Rowdies

    By Charles G. Leland



    De moon shines ofer de cloudlens,
    Und de cloudts plow ofer de sea,
    Und I vent to Coney Island,
    Und I took mein Schatz mit me.
    Mein Schatz, Katrina Bauer,
    I gife her mein heart und vortdt;
    Boot ve tidn’t know vot beoples
    De Dampfsschiff hafe cot on poard.

    De preeze plowed cool und bleasant,
    We looket at de town
    Mit sonn-light on de shdeebles,
    Und wetter fanes doornin’ round.
    Ve sat on de deck in a gorner
    Und dropled nopody dere,
    Vhen all aroundt oos de rowdies
    Peginned to plackguard und schvear.

    A voman mit a papy
    Vos sittin’ in de blace;
    Von tooket a chew tobacco
    Und trowed it indo her vace.
    De voman got coonvulshons,
    De papy pegin to gry;
    Und de rowdies shkreemed out a laffin,
    Und saidt dat de fun was “high.”

    Pimepy ve become some hoonger,
    Katrina Bauer und I,
    I openet de lit of mine pasket,
    Und pringed out a cherry bie.
    A cherry kooken mit pretzels,
    “How goot!” Katrina said,
    Vhen a rowdy snatched it from her,
    Und preaked it ofer mine het.

    I dells him he pe a plackguart,
    I gifed him a biece my mind,
    I vouldt saidt it pefore a tousand,
    Mit der teufel himself pehind.
    Den he knocks me down mit a sloong-shot,
    Und peats me plack and plue;
    Und de plackguards kick me,
    Dill I vainted, und dat ish drue.

    De rich American beoples
    Don’t know how de rowdies shtrike
    Der poor hardtworkin’ Sharman,
    He knows it more ash he like.
    If de Deutsche speakers und bapers
    Are somedimes too hard on dis land,
    Shoost dink how de Deutsch kit driven
    Along by de rowdy’s hand!



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