The Lovesick Scarecrow

0:00 Calgary, Alberta, Canada

0:04 The Lovesick Scarecrow

0:07 A scarecrow in a field of corn

0:10 A thing of tatters all forlorn

0:13 Once felt the influence of spring

0:15 And fell in love a foolish thing

0:18 And most particularly so in his case

0:22 For he loved a crow

0:25 A lackaday, it's wrong, I know

0:28 It's wrong for me to love a crow

0:30 An all-wise man created me

0:33 To scare the crows away, cried he

0:36 And though the music of her call

0:39 Thrills through and through this heart of

0:42 straw

0:43 My passion I must put away

0:46 And do my duty come what may

0:49 Yet, oh, the cruelty of fate

0:51 I fear she doth reciprocate

0:54 My love, for often dusk I hear

0:57 Her in my cornfield hovering near

1:02 And once I dreamt, oh, vision blessed

1:05 That she alighted on my breast

1:08 To his very, very hard, I know

1:11 But all-wise man decreed it so

1:14 He cried and flung his arm in air

1:17 The very picture oaked a spare

1:21 Poor scarecrow, if he could but know

1:24 Even now his lady love, the crow

1:27 Sits in a branch just out of sight

1:30 With her good husband waiting night

1:33 To pluck from out his sleeping breast

1:36 His heart of straw to line her nest

1:41 End of poem