Cold aeroplanes, slow boats, warm trains
Remind me of jack-a-lynn.
Lush hotels and pretty girls
Won抰 cheer the misty mood I抦 in.
Silly, sad --- I抳e never had to write this before ---
Oh, jack-a-lynn.
Funny how long nights allow
Thoughts of jack-a-lynn.
When phantoms tread around my bed
To offer restless dreams they bring.
And it抯 just the time and place to find
A sad song to play
For jack-a-lynn.
Magpies that shriek, old boots that leak
Call me to jack-a-lynn.
Coal-black cats in policeman抯 hats
Nosing where the mice have been.
And the long miaow抯 beginning now
And I抦 far, far from home ---
And jack-a-lynn.
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