I CAN’T MAKE UP MY MIND:

THE WORDS FROM HOOD’S MAGAZINE,

ADAPTED TO A MELODY

BY F. OTTO,

AND ARRANGED FOR THE PIANO

BY CHAS. GROBE.

Presented by G. Willig, No. 171 Chestnut St. Published by G. Willig Jr. Baltimore.

[Entered according to act of Congress, by G. Willig, Jr., in the year 1848, at the Clerk’s Office, of the District Court of Md.]

1st Verse.

I can’t make up my mind, mamma,

In such unseemly haste;

Nor pick from all my dying swains

A husband to my taste.

There’s gay Charles Dash, a charming man,

Most affable and kind

Who loves me so de-

vo-ted-ly,

But I can’t make up my mind.

SECOND VERSE.

And, next, there’s frank, young Harry West,

So fond, so true, so clever,

Who though I scold him all the day,

Adores me more than ever.

There’s Roger Snipe, the pink of beaux,

Or else your daughter’s blind,

And yet when Snipe grows serious, I

I can’t make up my mind.

THIRD VERSE.

There’s lawyer Keen, and poet Good,

Exemplars of their sort;

Still, still I can’t make up my mind

There’s no accounting for’t!

“Yes, yes, there is,” stern truth replied;

“Your vanity imparts

That false delight in flatt’ring tongues,

Which forfeits loving hearts.”

FOURTH VERSE.

On purpose to make up her mind,

So long this fair one tarried,

Her lovers, loath to hang themselves,

Sought other maids and married!

And, though mamma is growing old,

Her daughter looks much older,

E’er since her coquetry and pride

In the Old Maids Corps enroll’d her.

Transcriber’s Notes:

Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained as well as some spellings peculiar to Graham’s. Punctuation has been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals used for preparation of the ebook.

page 339, and paralized at their ==> and paralyzed at their

page 340, the port of frankness, ==> the part of frankness,

page 344, hast thou give to ==> hast thou given to

page 347, cross old fidgetty fellow ==> cross old fidgety fellow

page 348, rare and so indiscribable. ==> rare and so indescribable.

page 350, lend him Deidrich Knickerbocker’s ==> lend him Diedrich Knickerbocker’s

page 351, will not be be dictated ==> will not be dictated

page 353, and like a bark ==> and like a barque

page 353, And gave embodyment ==> And gave embodiment

page 359, labored assidiously, when ==> labored assiduously, when

page 363, the somethat affected ==> the somewhat affected

page 363, of faultless vesification ==> of faultless versification

page 370, to and fro the ==> to and fro in the

page 372, those charms to day!” ==> those charms to-day!”

page 372, fisher’s bark still ==> fisher’s barque still

page 374, Sickness is synonimous ==> Sickness is synonymous

page 375, a most woful-loooking ==> a most woful-looking

page 377, a blank envelop. ==> a blank envelope.

page 385, is usually characterestic only ==> is usually characteristic only

page 385, as they eat, dressed, ==> as they ate, dressed,

page 388, Stiched her life into ==> Stitched her life into

page 392, Jasper St. Albyn ==> Jasper St. Aubyn