When We First Played "Show"

Wasn't it a good time,          Long Time Ago -      When we all were little tads          And first played "Show"! -      When every newer day          Wore as bright a glow      As the ones we laughed away -          Long Time Ago!      Calf was in the back-lot;          Clover in the red;      Bluebird in the pear-tree;          Pigeons on the shed;      Tom a-chargin' twenty pins          At the barn; and Dan      Spraddled out just like "The          'Injarubber'-Man!"      Me and Bub and Rusty,          Eck and Dunk and Sid,      'Tumblin' on the sawdust          Like the A-rabs did;      Jamesy on the slack-rope         In a wild retreat,      Grappling back, to start again -         When he chalked his feet!      Wasn't Eck a wonder,         In his stocking-tights?      Wasn't Dunk - his leaping lion -         Chief of all delights!      Yes, and wasn't "Little Mack"         Boss of all the Show, -      Both Old Clown and Candy-Butcher -         Long Time Ago!      Sid the Bareback-Rider;         And - oh-me-oh-my! -      Bub, the spruce Ring-master,         Stepping round so spry! -      In his little waist-and-trousers         All made in one,      Was there a prouder youngster         Under the sun!      And NOW - who will tell me, -         Where are they all?      Dunk's a sanatorium doctor,         Up at Waterfall;      Sid's a city street-contractor;         Tom has fifty clerks;      And Jamesy he's the "Iron Magnate"         Of "The Hecla Works."      And Bub's old and bald now,         Yet still he hangs on, -      Dan and Eck and "Little Mack,"          Long, long gone!      But wasn't it a good time,          Long Time Ago -      When we all were little tads          And first played "Show"!