I reckon the party who sets up on high

He may wish for a moment that’s calm.

It’s awful to set there an’ find by-an’-by

That you’ve done gone an’ set on a bomb.

I calculate, if they should blow up a king,

In spite of the good he has done,

Nary king he will be;

But me, as for me,

I’ll be settin’ right here in the sun.

THE PINE-TREE FLAG