Take such a lot of pains to prove it’s true.
When tales are c’rect in all their fitnesses,
There ain’t no need of forty witnesses,
Nor one at all I guess, but that’s enough;
Now listen to the song of ‘Charley Buff,’
Who always said, ‘I am a truthful man:’ ”
He polished off his drink and thus began:
CHARLEY BUFF
Oh Charley Buff was his parents’ joy,
And as he always told,