TO MOLLIE MY WIFE Lester A. Rowland Dear Girlie: Sixteen years today you became my wife Ever since I’ve had a joyful life. For you’ve made me a home, a dandy one too, In doing all things a wife should do. You’ve given me children one, two, three, And helped me always contented to be. You do not complain when my “Lay-off” is done, But stay on at home when I’m on the run. You’re the first one up, the last in bed In getting your family fixed up and fed. Oh, Girlie, I can’t find words to tell What a wife you’ve been, you’ve been so swell. Looking way backward when you were my bride, And knowing you now, so good and tried, Were I again single, and a wife to woo, That wife dear one, would still be you. Much love, Daddy