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NIGHT PEOPLE DAY PEOPLE AND STRANGE PEOPLE


I have known my friend since the second grade
And he is helping me put in a sprinkler system
So I have to be a good host
It should have been a clue when he said,
"You going to stay up all night?"
I looked at my watch and it read 7:45 PM
"I like to watch the sunset usually 9:45!"
Sometimes I even brave it until eleven PM.
Four thirty in the morning wife is shaking me,
"You got to get up, Jim is working in the yard."
I can't even see until seven in the morning
Pushed the eyelids up and moved the blood aside
Looked outside he works without coffee
It's been four days now and I have not slept
Waiting for that stupid alarm clock to go off
He is on his way home now and my only concern
I well lay awake waiting for four in the morning
Two things about that--It is cold and wet in the morning
And all the dogs in the morning are barking







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