But don't you go and make mistakes, like many

derned fools I've known,

For dirt is dirt, and snakes is snakes, but an

Injin's flesh and bone!

We were seeking gold in the Texan hold, and

we'd had a blaze of luck,

More rich and rare the stuff ran there at every

foot we struck;

Like men gone wild we t'iled and t'iled, and

never seemed to tire,