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What is it the Good Book says? I read it last night--it said: That he who sheddeth another man's blood by man shall his blood be shed! That's as fair as a man could ask it, who lives by the gun and knife--But the Law don't give him an even break when it's taking away his life.
Ho, the Law's unfair when it uses a chair, and a jolt from an unseen Death; Or it makes him flop to a six-foot drop and a rope shuts off his breath; If he's got to die let him die by the Book, with a Death that he can see. By a gun or knife, as he went through life, and both legs kicking free!--Songs of the "Shut-Ins"