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