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DRAMATIS PERSONAE	A
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HAYSEED a Granger	B
NOZZLE a Miner	B
RINGDIVVY a Statesman	C
FEEGOBBLE a Lawyer	B
JUNKET a Committee	D
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Scene Yuba Dam	E
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Feegobble Ringdivvy Nozzle	F
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NOZZLE	F
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My friends since ' I have pursued	G
The evil tenor of my watery way	A
Removing hills as by an act of faith	H
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RINGDIVVY	I
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Just so the steadfast faith of those who hold	J
In foreign lands beyond the Eastern sea	D
The shares in your concern a simple blind	K
Unreasoning belief in dividends	L
Still stimulated by assessments which	M
When the skies fall ensnaring all the larks	N
Will bring no doubt a very great return	O
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ALL singing	P
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O the beautiful assessment	Q
The exquisite assessment	Q
The regular assessment	Q
That makes the water flow	R
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RINGDIVVY	I
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The rascally assessment	Q
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FEEGOBBLE	R
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The murderous assessment	Q
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NOZZLE	R
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The glorious assessment	Q
That makes my mare to go	R
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FEEGOBBLE	R
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But Nozzle you I think were on the point	S
Of making a remark about some rights	T
Some certain vested rights you have acquired	U
By long immunity for still the law	R
Holds that if one do evil undisturbed	V
His right to do so ripens with the years	W
And one may be a villain long enough	I
To make himself an honest gentleman	C
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ALL singing	P
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Hail holy law	R
The soul with awe	X
Bows to thy dispensation	C
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NOZZLE	R
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It breaks my jaw	R
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RINGDIVVY	I
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It qualms my maw	R
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FEEGOBBLE	R
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It feeds my jaw	R
It crams my maw	R
It is my soul's salvation	C
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NOZZLE	R
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Why yes I've floated mountains to the sea	D
For lo these many years though some they say	A
Do strand themselves along the bottom lands	Y
And cover up a village here and there	Z
And here and there a ranch 'Tis said indeed	A2
The granger with his female and his young	B2
Do not infrequently go to the dickens	C2
By premature burial in slickens	C2
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ALL singing	P
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Could slickens forever	B
Choke up the river	B
And slime's endeavor	B
Be tried on grain	D2
How small the measure	B
Of granger's treasure	B
How keen his pain	D2
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RINGDIVVY	I
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'A consummation devoutly to be wished '	-
These rascal grangers would long since have been	E2
Submerged in slimes to the last man of them	F2
But for the fact that all their wicked tribes	C2
Affect our legislation with their bribes	C2
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ALL singing	P
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O bribery's great	G2
'Tis a pillar of State	G2
And the people they are free	D
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FEEGOBBLE	R
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It smashes my slate	G2
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NOZZLE	R
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It is thievery straight	G2
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RINGDIVVY	I
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But it's been the making of me	D
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NOZZLE	R
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I judge by certain shrewd sensations here	H2
In these callosities I call my thumbs	C2
thrilling sense as of ten thousand pins	C2
Red hot and penetrant transpiercing all	R
The cuticle and tickling through the nerves	C2
That some malign and awful thing draws near	I2
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Enter Hayseed	G2
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Good Lord here are the ghosts and spooks of all	R
The grangers I have decently interred	G2
Rolled into one	C
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FEEGOBBLE	R
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Plead phantom	J2
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RINGDIVVY	I
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You've the floor	K2
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HAYSEED	G2
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From the margin of the river	B
Bitter Creek they sometimes call it	G2
Where I cherished once the pumpkin	E2
And the summer squash promoted	G2
Harvested the sweet potato	G2
Dallied with the fatal melon	C
And subdued the fierce cucumber	B
I've been driven by the slickens	C2
Driven by the slimes and tailings	C2
All my family my Polly	R
Ann and all my sons and daughters	C2
Dog and baby both included	G2
All were swamped in seas of slickens	C2
Buried fifty fathoms under	B
Where they lie prepared to play their	Z
Gentle prank on geologic	L2
Gents that shall exhume them later	B
In the dim and distant future	B
Taking them for melancholy	R
Relics antedating Adam	J2
I alone got up and dusted	G2
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NOZZLE	R
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Avaunt you horrid and infernal cuss	C2
What dire distress have you prepared for us	C2
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RINGDIVVY	I
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Were I a buzzard stooping from the sky	M2
My craw with filth to fill	R
Into your honorable body I	M2
Would introduce a bill	R
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FEEGOBBLE	R
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Defendant hence or by the gods I'll brain thee	R
Unless you saved some turneps to retain me	R
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HAYSEED	G2
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As I was saying I got up and dusted	G2
My ranch a graveyard and my business busted	G2
But hearing that a fellow from the City	G2
Who calls himself a Citizens' Committee	G2
Was coming up to play the very dickens	C2
With those who cover up our farms with slickens	C2
And make himself unless I am in error	B
To all such miscreants a holy terror	B
I thought if I would join the dialogue	N2
I maybe might get payment for my dog	N2
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ALL Singing	P
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O the dog is the head of Creation	C
Prime work of the Master's hand	G2
He hasn't a known occupation	C
Yet lives on the fat of the land	G2
Adipose indolent sleek and orbicular	B
Sun soaken door matted cross and particular	B
Men women children all coddle and wait on him	O2
Then accidentally shutting the gate on him	O2
Miss from their calves ever after the rifted out	G2
Mouthful of tendons that doggy has lifted out	G2
Enter Junket	G2
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JUNKET	G2
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Well met my hearties I must trouble you	P2
Jointly and severally to provide	G2
A comfortable carriage with relays	C2
Of hardy horses This Committee means	C2
To move in state about the country here	B
I shall expect at every place I stop	Q2
Good beds of course and everything that's nice	C2
With bountiful repast of meat and wine	R2
For this Committee comes to sea and mark	S2
And inwardly digest	G2
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HAYSEED	G2
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Digest my dog	N2
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NOZZLE	R
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First square my claim for damages the gold	G2
Escaping with the slickens keeps me poor	B
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RINGDIVVY	I
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I merely would remark that if you'd grease	C2
My itching palm it would more glibly glide	G2
Into the public pocket	G2
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FEEGOBBLE	R
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Sir the wheels	C2
Of justice move but slowly till they're oiled	G2
I have some certain writs and warrants here	B
Prepared against your advent You recall	R
The tale of Zaccheus who did climb a tree	B
And Jesus said 'Come down'	R2
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JUNKET	G2
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Why bless your souls	C2
I've got no money I but came to see	B
What all this noisy babble is about	G2
Make a report and file the same away	A
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NOZZLE RINGDIVVY FEEGOBBLE HAYSEED	G2
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How'll that help us Reports are not our style	R
Of provender	B
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JUNKET	G2
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Well you can gnaw the file	R