An’ I’d brace up an’ clench de pew

An’ try to hol’ my station,

Whilst he’d light up de fumes o’ hell,

An’ yell an’ yell an’ yell an’ yell,

’Tel we could smell damnation!

One day I swooned off in a tranch,

F’om brimstone suffocation;

An’ red-hot sins wid forkèd tails

Riz up wid wails an’ wails an’ wails

An’ stopped my circulation!