And did not hear the harness bull,

Till he shook them out of their boozy nap,

With a husky voice and a loaded sap.

They were charged with vag, for they had no kale,

And the judge said sixty days in jail;

But the john had a bundle, the worker’s plea,

So he gave him a floater and set him free.

They had turned him out, but ditched his mate,

So he grabbed the guts of an east-bound freight;

He had held his form to the rusty rods