Dedicated to Mrs. E. P. DOTY, Janesville, Wis.
"When Church Is Out" (1897)
Words from "PUCK"
Music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond, 1862-1946
[Source: pp. 87-88 from "Songs Everybody Sings"]

When church is out, and Jack and Jill in linked seclusion stray,
It takes them two long lonely hours to pick their homeward way;
And as 'tis scarcely half a mile, no reason can I find
Why it should be so very long, except that love is blind.