Why, I jest couldn’t help but grin

When Zekel come a-bouncin’ in

As furious as the law allows.

He’d jest be’n up to Liza’s house,

To find her gone, then come to church

To have this end put to his search.

I guess I laffed that meetin’ through,

An’ not a mortal word I knew

Of what the preacher preached er read

Er what the choir sung er said.