Trainin’ round in bobtail coats—
But it’s curus Christian dooty
This ere cuttin’ folks’s throats.
* * * * *
From The Biglow Papers.
Renegaders.
Thrash away, you’ll have to rattle
On that “Union” drum o’ “yourn”;
“’Tain’t” a knowin’ kind o’ cattle
Trainin’ round in bobtail coats—
But it’s curus Christian dooty
This ere cuttin’ folks’s throats.
* * * * *
From The Biglow Papers.
Renegaders.
Thrash away, you’ll have to rattle
On that “Union” drum o’ “yourn”;
“’Tain’t” a knowin’ kind o’ cattle