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Fer forty year and better you have been a friend to me, / Through days of sore afflictions and dire adversity, / You allus had a kind word of counsul to impart, / Which was like a healin' 'intment to the sorrow of my hart.
When I burried my first womern, William Leachman, it was you / Had the only consolation that I could listen to -- / Fer I knowed you had gone through it and had rallied from the blow, / And when you said I'd do the same, I knowed you'd ort to know.