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Somep'n 'at's common-like, and good / And plain, and easy understood; / Somep'n 'at folks like me and you / Kin understand, and relish, too, / And find some sermint in 'at hits / The spot, and sticks and benefits.
We don't need nothin' extry fine; / 'Cause, take the run o' minds like mine, / And we'll go more on good horse-sense / Than all your flowery eloquence; / And we'll jedge best of honest acts / By Nature's statement of the facts.
So when you're wantin' to express / Your misery, er happiness, / Er anything 'at's wuth the time / O' telling in plain talk er rhyme -- / Jes' sort o' let your subject run / As ef the Lord wuz listenun.