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Tell you what I like the best; 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time the strawberries melts On the vine,—some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothing else. Orchard's where I'd ruther be— Needn't fence it in for me! Jes' the whole sky overhead, And the whole airth underneath.
Tell you what I like the best; 'Long about knee-deep in June, 'Bout the time the strawberries melts On the vine,—some afternoon Like to jes' git out and rest, And not work at nothing else. Orchard's where I'd ruther be— Needn't fence it in for me! Jes' the whole sky overhead, And the whole airth underneath.
In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- James Whitcomb Riley
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- In print by 1911 AD · modern
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 207; printed byline: James Whitcomb Riley; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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