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Las' July -- an', I persume / 'Bout as hot / As the ole Gran'-Jury room / Where they sot! -- / Fight 'twixt Mike an' Dock McGriff -- / 'Pears to me jes' like as if / I'd a dremp' the whole blame thing -- / Allus ha'nts me roun' the gizzard / When they're nightmares on the wing, / An' a feller's blood's jes' friz! / Seed the row from a to izzard -- / 'Cause I wuz a-standin' as clost to 'em / As me an' you is!
Tell you the way it wuz -- / An' I do n't want to see, / Like _some_ fellers does, / When they 're goern to be / Any kind o' fuss -- / On'y makes a rumpus wuss / Far to interfere / When their dander's riz -- / But I wuz a-standin' as clost to 'em / As me an' you is!