Keeping Bachelor's Hall

There's a lonesomesortof feelïng Seetne to hang a my heart, I am nervoufl, sad and homesick Wilh h louging to depart. And for all of my short-coiniugs I ara wllJlng to Htone While in y wiie is on a vlsit And I'm left at home alone. With cakes, minee pies and cookies She has heaped each pantry sneif And to all thiee tempt) tig vinnds I am tree to help my self. But somehow thej 've lost thelr flavor Or my appetile ttas flown Siuce my Wte went on a visit And I'm left at home alone. Now ihe house is in disorder Wblcü she leu so trim and neat, And would sorne oie wa.sh tlie dllies It would be tor me a treat, And my bed a rack of torture With rapidity has growu Since my wiie went on a visit And I've made Hall aloue. The old house is dear and silent Since the chtldren weut away. How I miss their childisli lauü;hter And the tricks they love to play, And I never learned to value The domestic bliss l've known 'Tili my wife went on a visit And I staved at home aiont;.