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When The Green Gits Back In The Trees

By James Whitcomb Riley

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In Spring, when the green gits back in the trees,          And the sun comes out and STAYS,     And yer boots pulls on with a good tight squeeze,      And you think of yer bare-foot days;     When you ORT to work and you want to NOT,      And you and yer wife agrees     It's time to spade up the garden-lot,      When the green gits back in the trees         Well! work is the least o' MY idees         When the green, you know, gits back in the trees!     When the green gits back in the trees, and bees      Is a-buzzin' aroun' ag'in     In that kind of a lazy go-as-you-please      Old gait they bum roun' in;     When the groun's all bald whare the hay-rick stood,      And the crick's riz, and the breeze     Coaxes the bloom in the old dogwood,      And the green gits back in the trees, -         I like, as I say, in sich scenes as these,         The time when the green gits back in the trees!     When the whole tail-feathers o' Wintertime      Is all pulled out and gone!     And the sap it thaws and begins to climb,      And the swet it starts out on     A feller's forred, a-gittin' down      At the old spring on his knees -     I kindo' like jest a-loaferin' roun'      When the green gits back in the trees -         Jest a-potterin' roun' as I - durn - please-         When the green, you know, gits back in the trees!

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About James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) was an American poet known as the "Hoosier Poet." His dialect poems—including "Little Orphant Annie" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin"—celebrate rural Indiana life and childhood nostalgia.

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