English Nurses with Americans in France, item 34

• April 11, 2018 21:26:20 Annick Rodriguez

  I should like to whisper secrets

  But my language goes askew

  With the second person plural

  For the more familiar "too"

  
  

  In your pretty little garden

  I could always say "juh tame"

  But it ain't so very subtle

  An' it ain't not quite the same

  As "you've got some dandy earrings,"

  or "your eyes are nice an' brown"-

  But my adjectives get manly

  Right before a lady noun.

  
  

  Those infinites perplex me:

  I can say you're "tray jolee."

  But beyond thats simple statement

  All my tenses dont agree

  I can make the Boche "Compre ... 

  When I meet 'em in a trench

  But the softer things escape me

  When I try to yap in French

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• April 11, 2018 21:02:11 Annick Rodriguez

  I should like to whisper secrets

  But my language goes askew

  With the second person plural

  For the more familiar "too"

  
  

  In your pretty little garden

  I could always say "juh tame"

  But it ain't so very subtle

  An' it ain't not quite the same

  As "you've got some dandy earrings,"

  or "your eyes are nice an' brown"-

  But my adjectives get manly

  Right before a lady noun.

  
  

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• April 11, 2018 20:57:41 Annick Rodriguez

  I should like to whisper secrets

  But my language goes askew

  With the second person plural

  For the more familiar "too"

  
  

  In your pretty little garden

  I could always say "juh tame"

  But it ain't so very subtle

  An' it ain't not quite the same

  As "you've got some dandy earrings,"

  
  

  
  

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• April 11, 2018 20:53:34 Annick Rodriguez

  I should like to whisper secrets

  But my language goes askew

  With the second 

  
  

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