Sunsets from our back porch, the furrers I

Hev cut with our ol’ walkin’ plow—Oh Paw,

Yew git me, don’t ye!—then I come ri’t back

An’ look acrost ter whar them Boshes be,

An’ think o’ all the things they done an’ still

Ar’ doin’ ter make this airth a mizzery,

Mad, desp’rit things drove on by them ez knows

They’re in daid ’rong but never’ll give a dam

’Bout lyin’, killin’—then I know my job,

’N’ I’m glad I’m here, ’n’ I know yew be—”