Topical Verse
(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.)