jonathon jones was a regular guy
with a song in his heart and a twinkle in his eye
he had a wart on his foot and a tattoo on his arm
and he didn’t mean no one no harm
jonathon woke up at dawn
and put his go to town clothes on
on the first day of the rest of his life
to ask peg brown to be his wife
peg brown worked at the bank
under the watchful eye of mr frank
mr frank had a smiling face
but in his brain strange currents raced
deep in his dreams when he was alone
he had marked peg brown for his own
but he knew that peg would look askance
at anything like a direct advance
mr frank enjoyed his comfortable existence
and yet with unrelenting persistence
thoughts of murder and carnal obsession
of his fevered brain took possession
seeing peg brown on her cashier’s chair
so young, so beautiful, so fair,
mysterious as an odalisque
put his uneventful life at risk
may i speak to you for a moment, mr frank?
peg asked one morning with an expression blank
mr frank was seized with alarm
and wished he was back on the farm
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