The cane-patch battle field
Wuz charged by boys with wooden swords,
Good temper wuz their shield.
They stripped the stalks of all their leaves,
Then men, with steel knives keen
Slashed off the heads and cut the stalks
An' piled them straight an' clean.
The tops wuz saved ter feed the hens,
Likewise fer nex' year's seed.
The farmer allus has ter save