Dick and Ned and I : song / words by Egbert W. Fowler music by H.W. Petrie

VERSE 01: There never were three gayer boys,/Than Dick, and Ned, and I,/Sharing one another’s joys,/Dick, and Ned, and I./Dick was freckle faced and thin,/Ned was the reverse of him./I was long and lank as sin,/Dick, and Ned, and IVERSE 02: Wherever you would look for one,/Dick, or Ned or I/You’d find the three, all having fun,/Dick, and Ned, and I./And if Dick got in a fight,/Ned, he help’d with all his might,/And I pitch’d in to make things right,/Dick, and Ned, and I.VERSE 03: Dick’s grandfather had a goat/To Dick, and Ned, and I./’Twas a never failing joke,/To tease him on the sly./We trained him to buck all right,/And on a damp and foggy night,/He sent our teacher out of sight!/Dick, and Ned, and IVERSE 04: Years have past since last we met,/Dick, and Ned, and I./The sun of life is almost set,/For Dick, and Ned, and I./Dick is now a famous man,/Ned’s a city alderman,/I am way behind the van/Dick, and Ned, and I.CHORUS: We were three jolly boys together,/Birds of one wild and wicked feather./Our life was always sunny weather,/Dick, and Ned, and I/Dick was as bad as he could be,/Ned was as bad as Dick, you see,/I was as bad as Ned and he,/Dick and Ned, and I.