( I LOOK BACK ON SOME THINGS DONE WHEN LADS
WITH REGRET NOW BEING A LOVER OF NATURE )
SOME MIGHT FIND THIS SO AWFUL IT IS SO
SOME COLLECT ALL SORTS OF THINGS THEY DO
WHEN I WAS YOUNG I COLLECTED BIRDS EGGS
AWAY BACK THEN AS MANY DID IT'S SO TRUE
I THEN COULD LITTERALLY CLIMB ANYTHING
SEEMED NO TROUBLE AT ALL AWAY BACK THEN
UP THE TALLEST EVER TREE I'D THEN GO
AND ALWAYS SAFELY RIGHT BACK DOWN AG'EN
WITH A SOCK IN MY TEETH TO PLACE THEM
AND ONLY EVER WAS THEN TO TAKE THE ONE
EGGS EVER SO VERY BEAUTIFUL IN COLOR
CLIMBING LIKE A MONKEY JUST TO GET IT DONE
TALK ABOUT SHIMMYING UP TREES BACK THEN
I COULD CLIMB AS ANY ONE THEN AROUND
AT TIMES TREES TALL AND STRAIGHT AND NO LIMBS
NEVER ONCE WAS I TO FALL OR SLIP TO THE GROUND
SOMEONE WOULD WANT A CERTAIN EGG THEN
JUST GO GET YOUNG TERRY THEY WOULD CRY
HE WILL BE UP THERE AND BACK IN NO TIME
HE WILL GET IT FOR SURE OR I WILL BIGHT MY EYE
AT TIMES ON A ROPE HANGING DOWN A CLIFF
TO GET ONE EGG FROM BELOW A NEST ON A ROCK
BUT SOMETIMES THEM BIRDS GET PRETTY BIG
AND I OFTEN I ARRIVED BACK THEN IN SHOCK
SMALL IN SIZE AND LIGHTER THEN IN WEIGHT
SOMETIMES AS GOOD AS ANY THEN OLD CAT
UP A TREE IN NO TIME AT ALL WOULD I THEN GO
AND SOCK IN TEETH I WOULD BRING IT BACK
WE HAD FLAT BOXES LINED WITH WHITE FLOUR
AND EACH AND EVERY EGG WE THEN WOULD BLOW
WITH A LITTLE HOLE ON EACH END MADE NEATLY
AND I HAD A LOT OF THEM BACK THEN IT'S SO
SWIMMING BUCK NAKED TO GET DUCKS EGGS
DIGGING A SECTION OF RIVER BANK TO GET ONE
A KINGFISHERS EGG IS OFTEN IN TWENTY FEET
BUT WE ALWAYS SEEMED THEN TO GET IT DONE
WE NEVER DISTURBED THE NESTS BEST AT ALL
BUT HOW I AND OTHERS HAD SUCH A DISPLAY
AWAY BACK THEN COLLECTING WILD BIRDS EGGS
SO VERY BEAUTIFUL WERE THEY ALL ON THE DAY