Look Before You Leap (Charlie Poole) 
Love is a very funny thing It catches the young and old Like a plate of boarding-house hash A many a man has sold It makes you feel like a freshwater eel It’ll cause your head to swell You’ll lose your mind, for love is blind It takes all your money as well 
When you’re struck on a pretty little gal You talk as gentle as a dove He spends all his money and call her "Honey" To show her he’s solid on his love When his money’s all gone and his clothing soaked He’ll find the old saying true "A mole on the arm’s worth two on the leg" But what is he going to do? 
When married folks have a plenty of cash Their love is fond and strong But when they have to live on hash Their love doesn’t last very long With a wife and seventeen half-starved kids I’ll tell you it’s no fun When the butcher comes around to collect his bill With a dog and a double-barrel gun 
When rent is high and the kids all cry Because there’s no grub or chaw You’ll holler for your son to load up your gone While you vaccinate your mother-in-law With a wife and seventeen half-starved kids 
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