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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=477875" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Ol' Tunes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=477875" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">YOU kin talk about yer anthems<br>An' yer arias an' sich,<br>An' yer modern choir-singin'<br>That you think so awful rich;<br>But you orter heerd us youngsters<br>In the times now far away,<br>A-singin' o' the ol' tunes<br>In the ol'-fashioned way.<br>There was some of us sung treble<br>An' a few of us growled bass,<br>An' the tide o' song flowed smoothly<br>With its 'comp'niment o' grace;<br>There was spirit in that music,<br>An' a kind o' solemn sway,<br>A-singin' o' the ol' tunes<br>In the ol'-fashioned way.<br>I remember oft o' standin'<br>In my homespun pantaloons—<br>On my face the bronze an' freckles<br>O' the suns o' youthful Junes—<br>Thinkin' that no mortal minstrel<br>Ever chanted sich a lay<br>As the ol' tunes we was singin'<br>In the ol'-fashioned way.<br>The boys 'ud always lead ,as,<br>An' the girls 'ud all chime in,<br>Till the sweetness o' the singin'<br>Robbed the list'nin' soul o' sin;<br>An' I used to tell the parson<br>'Twas as good to sing as pray,<br>When the people sung the ol' tunes<br>In the ol'-fashioned way.<br>How I long ag'in to hear 'em<br>Pourin' forth from soul to soul,<br>With the treble high an' meller,<br>An' the bass's mighty roll; <br>But the times is very diff'rent,<br>An' the music heerd to-day<br>Ain't the singin' o' the ol' tunes<br>In the ol'-fashioned way.<br>Little screechin' by a woman,<br>Little squawkin' by a man,<br>Then the organ's twiddle-twaddle,<br>Jest the empty space to span, —<br>An' ef you should even think it,<br>'T isn't proper fur to say<br>That you want to hear the ol' tunes<br>In the ol'-fashioned way.<br>But I think that some bright mornin',<br>When the toils of life air o'er,<br>An' the sun o' heaven arisin'<br>Glads with light the happy shore,<br>I shall hear the angel chorus,<br>In the realms of endless day,<br>A-singin' o' the ol' tunes<br>In the ol'-fashioned way.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</a></strong></div>