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If the excursion train to Peoria / Had just been wrecked, I might have escaped with my life --
Certainly I should have escaped this place.
But as it was burned as well, they mistook me / For John Allen who was sent to the Hebrew Cemetery / At Chicago, / And John for me, so I lie here.
It was bad enough to run a clothing store in this town, / But to be buried here -- ach!