I could hear his neck a-creakin' while his eye run

up the shore.

An' soon we come acrost a buck as big an' bold

as sin

An' Philo took t' swallerin' to keep his

feelin's in;

An' every time he swallered, as he slowly swung

eroun',

I could hear his Adam's apple go a-squeakin' up

an' down.