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All day I'd b'en a-cuttin' wheat / In the drippin'est kind o' heat, / While Bill he'd drug the road right smart / An' hed made what he called a start / Out on the forty west the silos / (On the road leadin' down to Milo's). / We both was watchin' th' evenin' star, / Sort o' smokin' an' dozin' thar, / When Laury's voice begun ter croon / With the follerin' drowsy toon:
_Sleep O, Willy bright! / The whip-poor-will's pleadin', / But mommy ain't heedin', / Fer Willy aint needin' / No beatin' ternight._