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Us-folks is purty _pore_ -- but Ma / She's waitin' -- two years more -- tel Pa / He serve his term out. Our Pa he -- / _He's in the Penitenchurrie_!
Now don't you never _tell_! -- 'cause _Sis_, / The _baby_, _she_ don't know he is. -- / 'Cause she wuz only four, you know, / He kissed her last an' hat to go!