if little Nellie remembers Joe her beau -- 1925

Speranza 1925 on Mother Kelly's doorstep, down Paradise Row. I sit alonga Nellie, she sits alonga Joe. she's got a little hole in her frock, hole in her shoe, hole in her sock where her toe peeps through, but Nellie was the smartest down our alley. on Mother Kelly's doorstep, I'm wondering now if little girl Nellie remembers Joe, her beau, and does she love him like she used to on Mother Kelly's doorstep, down Paradise Row.