Paul Gordon - I Couldn't Know Someone Less lyrics

[Jerusha Abbott] It's been nearly two months now Since I wrote you last You can't imagine my regret Still, it wasn't nice not to write I won't see Sallie in the summer I know you must have had your reasons I know you didn't mean to hurt me, Daddy I don't know why you behave as you do Just a line on a card that denotes Where you have ordered me to You don't try to imply there's a why I wouldn't venture a guess I couldn't know someone less I've imagined you so many ways You are kind, you are tall, you are old But in all those pondering days I'd not imagined you heartless and cold I thought you cared, I confess I couldn't know someone less And I'm here on a farm in the country Sleep in a wooden bed Mrs Semple is really quite simple Sees that the cows are fed Tomorrow we may paint the barn A different shade of red! There's an ice cream social at the school house I wish I were dead! If I could travel to places in books I could see with my eyes How Milton's heaven looks But I'm here watching days slip away Adrift in my own discontent Though you've shown me kindness And changed my life, I must confess Why would you set me free only to imprison me? I couldn't know someone less