[AnAmericanMother]

Farewell, o verse
Beside the road
How sad to know
You're out of mode

BURMA-SHAVE

Couple other faves:

Beneath this vale
Of toil and sin
Your head grows bald
But not your chin.

BURMA-SHAVE

(that one's in the Smithsonian.)

Said Juliet
To Romeo
"If you won't shave,
Go home-eo."

BURMA-SHAVE

[VOA]

the way I heard it (but never saw it as I was too young)...

In this world
of toil and sin
your head grows bald
but not your chin

BURMA SHAVE


I don't have a citation, but now that I've used it more than a few times
with old college buddies...I'm afraid I'm stuck with this version!
Funny to think that my generation may be the last one for which this
littel verse gets a universal grin and moan from middle-aged men!