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Till we are tired, and ready to say,
We'll go to bed; for 'tis best, you know.
    Our daddy can understand.

When we must go to church, and must sit
So still, and can't count all the lights,
So we are almost into a fit,
We wiggle just like our clothes are tights.
Our daddy will reach, and smooth our heads,
Till we're so sleepy we can't sit up.
He gives his knees for our sleepy heads.
When it's all over he wakes us up.
    Our daddy can understand.

He says he was a boy, so he knows
That boys have feelings, and can have pride,
That by our ways it so easily shows.
Surely from him we can nothing hide,
So we don't try to, because, you see,
He feels for fellows, and that is why
We and daddy will always agree;
To him we can never be shy.
    Cause daddy can understand.

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