Times got so hard I shot the dog
An’ ate them up myself.
Both Rufus Akes an’ Rastus Payne
Got married down in Gaines;
An’ now they say the Georgia woods
Are full of Akes an’ Paynes.
A cowslip ain’t no kind o’ slip
To slip upon a cow;
That’s why a catfish never answers
To a cat’s meow.