Some coward
Closed the Old Howard
They're hanging crepe on Scollay Square

World tension
Makes this suspension
Almost more than we can bear.

What's become of Flo LaVerne and Peaches de la Rose?
Brooding with the unemployed, wearing all their clothes.

Some dastard
When ahead and plastered
A sheriff's notice on the door.

Some coward
Closed the Old Howard
We don't have Burley anymore!