Thread: When Pa begins to shave

I was gonna' post this, but thought I'd check to see if it's already been posted. It has. Then I thought, hey, some might want to see it that don't know pixelfixed posted it already

Thanks, pixel for typing this out so I didn't have to.

When Sunday mornin’ comes around
My Pa hangs up his strop,
An’ takes his razor out an’ makes
It go c’flop! c’flop!
An’ then he gits his mug an’ brush
An yells t’ me "Behave!"
I tell y’u things is mighty still--
When Pa begins t’ shave.

Then Pa he stirs his brush around
An’ makes th’ soapsuds fly;
An’ sometimes, when he stirs too hard,
He gits some in his eye.
I tell y’u, but it’s funny then,
To see Pa stamp and rave;
But you mus’n’t git ketched laffin’--
When Pa begins t’ shave.

Th’ hired hand he dassent talk,
An’ even Ma’s afeard,
An’ y’u can hear the razor click
A-cuttin through Pa’ beard!
An then my Uncle Bill he laffs
An’ says: ‘Gosh! John, you’re brave;"
An’ Pa he swears, an Ma jest smiles-
When Pa begins t’ shave.

When Pa gits done a-shavin’ of
His face, he turns around,
And Uncle Bill says: "Why, John,
Y’ur chin looks like ploughed ground!"
An’ then he laffs—jest laffs an’ laffs,
But I got t’ behave,
Cos things is apt t’ happen quick—
When Pa begins t’ shave!

Harry Douglas Robins

From – The Vanishing American Barber Shop-An Illustrated History of
Tonsorial Art, 1860-1960, Ronald S. Barlow 1993 p.84

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