Thread: Question for old guys like me----

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Yesterday afternoon, a friend and I drove the roadster pickup to a little place called "Dundalk" about 50 miles from where I live to a "show and shine". They had a beautifull fair ground, adequate parking, a D.J., nice home cooked meals, and thankfully lots of nice sunshine. As we were setting there, an old poem started to go through my head, that I used to hear from one of my uncles, (the one who taught me how to drink whiskey and play the fiddle) who is dead now. It went like this---"Adam was the first man invented, He lived all alone and he never was contented---Made him outa mud as the days go by, and hung him on the fence to see how he'd dry" "Along come Eve, and started the battle, He shoved her up a tree to get her an apple, she got 2 and he got one, and that is how the fight begun". I couldn't remember anymore of it than that, so this morning I phoned my 87 year old mother, and she remembered a bit more==="Along came Henry, with a hammer and a board, Picked up a tin can and made himself a Ford, Mighty hard times in this town now, Better sell your car and buy yourself a cow."----I am certain that this was some depression era doggerel, but I find it very amusing. Have any of you guys ever heard this, and do you know any more of the words?---Brian

Have never heard it, but apparently the verses were borrowed. Here's a text that includes what you quoted, no author credited; http://www.whitetreeaz.com/yfof/yfofword.htm

Thanks, Bob. I will wait and see what else turns up. My mom thought it might have been a poem called "Mighty Hard Times", but I did an internet search and couldn't find any reference to it. It may well be a home grown adaptation of what you posted.