Wonder how they got their bids;
Plucky lot she cared for Freshmen when I wandered in their midst.
On the road to old Back Bay--
When the cut-ins came too frequent, she would link 'er arm with mine.
And we'd go out to the card room and I'd listen to 'er line.
With 'er feet up on the sofa and 'er 'ands be 'ind 'er 'ead,
She distracted one's attention from the useless things she said.
You can see the things she said
In the magazines you've read,
And the stuff of Frederick Lonsdale which is butter for the bred
On the road to old Back Bay--
But that's all above behind long ago and far away,
And now I'm fooled no longer by the wisdom in Back Bay,
And I'm learnin' 'ere in Cambridge what the five-year student tells,
If you've 'eard the deb a-callin', you won't never 'edd naught else.
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