Old Brann allowed he would always be boss.

And the most of the people they’d ruther kow-

tow

To his notions than live in the midst of a row.

And whenever you’d see in a faint-hearted

crowd,

A man who was hollerin’ ’specially loud,

You could calculate suttin that positive man

Was the uncontradicted old Benjamin Brann.

For after a while all the folks stood in awe