You is histed werry sudden to de odder side de fence.
Well, you feel like you’d been standin’ on de locomotive track
An’ de engine come an’ hit you in de middle ob de back;
You don’ know wat has happened, you can scarcely cotch your breff;
But you tink you’ve made de ’quaintance ob a werry vi’lent deff.
ADAM NEVER WAS A BOY.
Of all the men the world has seen
Since time his rounds began,