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When we hear Uncle Sidney tell / About the long-ago / An' old, old friends he loved so well / When _he_ was young -- My-oh! -- / Us childern all wish _we'd 'a'_ bin / A-livin' then with Uncle, -- so / We could a-kindo' happened in / On them old friends he used to know! -- / The good, old-fashioned people -- / The hale, hard-working people -- / The kindly country people / 'At Uncle used to know!
They was God's people, Uncle says, / An' gloried in His name, / An' worked, without no selfishness, / An' loved their neighbers same / As they was kin: An' when they biled / Their tree-molasses, in the Spring, / Er butchered in the Fall, they smiled / An' sheered with all jist ever'thing! --