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We got up a Christmas-doin's / Last Christmas Eve -- / Kindo' dimonstration / 'At I railly believe / Give more satisfaction -- / Take it up and down -- / Than ary intertainment / Ever come to town!
Railly was a _theater_ -- / That's what it was, -- / But, bein' in the church, you know, / We had a "_Santy Clause_" -- / So 's to git the _old folks_ / To patternize, you see, / And _back_ the institootion up / Kindo' _morally_.