For he said, "It's my natur' to act like a traitor,

Since it runs in the joints of a Heed."

There once was a Copperhead Diddle,

Who played to the Heed second fiddle;

When they said, "It is small!" it replied, not at all,

Says he, "I ain't dead—as a live Copperhead

I'm a squirmulous vermiform Wriggler."

There was an old servant called Peter,

So moody in humor and feature

Because the good people from the church with a steeple