My Wife Went Away And Left Me (Charlie Poole) 
My wife went away and she left me Out in this wide world alone Sadness and gladness she left me She left a doggone good home I wrote her a letter last Tuesday Sealed it with a kiss The answer came back next morning And what she said to me was this 
When the groc’ry man puts sand in the sugar The milkman makes milk out of chalk Boys stay home with their mothers Women forget how to talk When the ocean turns into corn whiskey The railroad runs under the sea And the man in the moon comes down in a balloon Then darling, I’ll come back to thee 
I sat down and wrote her another Sealed it with my fist The answer came back next morning And what she said to me was this 
When the moon turns into an apple And a rainbow turns into a vine They build a steeple to heaven The stars they all fail to shine When the ocean turns into rye whiskey Makes glasses to see the wind When the girls quit using powder and paint Then darling, I’ll ask you again 
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