Thar my Remington hangs, and thar there's a griddle-cake br'ilin'—

For the two of us, pard—and thar, I allow, the heavens

Smile more friendly-like than on any other locality.

Stranger, nowhere else I don't take no satisfaction.

Gimme my ranch, 'n' them friendly old Shanghai chickens—

I brung the original pair f'm the States in eighteen-'n'-fifty—

Gimme me them and the feelin' of solid domestic comfort.

Yer parding, young man—

But this landscape a kind

Er flickers—I 'low 'twuz the po'try—