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Achievin' sech distinction with his moddel tabble dote / Ez to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note, / Our old friend Casey innovated somewhat round the place, / In hopes he would ameliorate the sufferin's uv the race; / 'Nd uv the many features Casey managed to import / The most important wuz a Steenway gran' pianny-fort, / An' bein' there wuz nobody could play upon the same, / He telegraffed to Denver, 'nd a real perfesser came, -- / The last an' crownin' glory uv the Casey restauraw / Wuz that tenderfoot musicianer, Perfesser Vere de Blaw!
His hair wuz long an' dishybill, an' he had a yaller skin, / An' the absence uv a collar made his neck look powerful thin: / A sorry man he wuz to see, az mebby you'd surmise, / But the fire uv inspiration wuz a-blazin' in his eyes! / His name wuz Blanc, wich same is Blaw (for that's what Casey said, / An' Casey passed the French ez well ez any Frenchie bred); / But no one ever reckoned that it really wuz his name, / An' no one ever asked him how or why or whence he came, -- / Your ancient history is a thing the Coloradan hates, / An' no one asks another what his name wuz in the States!