“'Twas the fifteenth anniversary of her twenty-second year,
So he smiled at her as sweetly as a hog
And asked what present she would like. And jestingly she said:
"Your green tie for my little yellow dog."”

—  Billy Bennett

"The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog", line 13

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