’Nd I havin’ my opinyin uv him.
Grew up together ’nd wouldn’t speak,
Courted sisters, ’nd marr’d ’em, too;
’Tended same meetin’-house oncet a week,
A-hatin’ each other through ’nd through!
But when Abe Linkern asked the West
F’r soldiers, we answered,—me ’nd Jim,—
He havin’ his opinyin uv me,
’Nd I havin’ my opinyin uv him.
But down in Tennessee one night