Hush up your teasin’ and listen to this:

’Tain’t much of a jingle, ’tain’t much of a tune,

But it’s spang-fired truth about Chester Cahoon.

The thund’rinest fireman Lord ever made

Was Chester Cahoon of the Tuttsville Brigade.

He was boss of the tub and the foreman of hose;

When the ’larm rung he’d start, sis, a-sheddin’

his clothes,

—Slung cote and slung wes’cote and kicked off

his shoes,