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(Dramatis Personae: One singer, one baritone horn, one bass drum.)
There was a man in our town, / And he was very lazy; / He made his wife do everything, / Till she was almost crazy. / Although he was a Christian man, / He made her come upstairs / And wake him up to say "Amen! " / When she had said his prayers. / One night before he went to sleep / He made her kneel and pray / And when she finished, wake him up; / Then this good man did say: / "Oh, Lord, please answer my wife's prayer. " / And then to sleep he fell. / The Lord did, and the man awoke / To find himself in -- . / _Baritone horns_ "Ta-ta-rum. " / _Bass Drums_ "Boom."
(_Houston Daily Post_, Sunday morning, May 17, 1896.)