Have You Ever?

Have you ever been invited to the Lame Boys' Parade?
The one that takes place somewhere just below Paradise?
It's a street over yonder in a sticky yellow neighborhood.
The parade is slow and noisy and it litters all the street
And makes the public turn away and pretend to sleep!
It is awfully gimpy and game and hobbly,
But all through the year we say that we don't
Know a thing about the little lame boys' charade,
But when it happens it's plain to all and we know it!

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