The Man With a Hoe
Said the tun with a hoe, "I kin not go, j There's taters to dig, and there's baans to grow i v And I've got to pat In some laoeroe seed ; So X ain't got time for to go mad bleed. * It's only » ptonio,' some of 'em % say, • A trip there and baok, with nuthink to pay ; But yer might oome T>£ol£ with a graveyard cough, One foot in the grave , t'other shot oftY ; ; An* minus aiMye, an' an »rm or twoA sloe sort of plonio that for you ! It's makin'hTsVry-«iey oiltt it, eh ? Toil killfa 1 strangers for rj£l*rpftyj Well* hist'ry'i made more way a than one — If i made with a hoe aa well's a gun. Let other fooli go to this klllin' matoh, , I stop* at 'ome in my tater patoh ; Let the tom-toms beat and the trumpets blow, I don't < Fall in' " mid the Man with the Hoe.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 3141, 13 February 1900, Page 2
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157The Man With a Hoe Bruce Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 3141, 13 February 1900, Page 2
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