Then a ticket agent he

Seein’ mournin’, says to me,

“Can I get the cards, or help you in your trouble, Mister Brown?”

So with solemn words I said,

As I pinted to the dead,

“There you’ll find, I guess, our pilgrimage and shrine is written down.”

Then all night beneath the stars

We sat grimly in the cars,

Sometimes sleepin’, sometimes thinkin’, sometimes drinkin’, till the dawn;

And each man went in his turn