And whereas, and seein’, and wherefore,

The times bein’ all out o’ j’int,

The nigger has got to mosey

From the limits o’ Spunky P’int!

Le’s reason the thing a minute:

I’m an old-fashioned Dimocrat too,

Though I laid my politics out o’ the way

For to keep till the war was through.

But I come back here, allowin’

To vote as I used to do,