HOWDY SONG
By Joel Chandler Harris
It’s howdy, honey, when you laugh,
An’ howdy when you cry,
An’ all day long it’s howdy—
I never shall say good-by.
I’m monst’us peart myse’f, suh,
An’ hopin’ the same fer you,
An’ when I ketch my breff, suh,
I’ll ax you howdy-do!