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Dow's flat That's its name	A
And I reckon that you	B
Are a stranger The same	A
Well I thought it was true	B
For thar isn't a man on the river as can't spot the place at first view	B
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It was called after Dow	C
Which the same was an ass	D
And as to the how	C
Thet the thing kem to pass	D
Jest tie up your hoss to that buckeye and sit ye down here in the grass	D
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You see this 'yer Dow	C
Hed the worst kind of luck	E
He slipped up somehow	C
On each thing thet he struck	E
Why ef he'd a straddled thet fence rail the derned thing'd get up and buck	E
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He mined on the bar	F
Till he couldn't pay rates	G
He was smashed by a car	F
When he tunneled with Bates	G
And right on the top of his trouble kem his wife and five kids from the States	G
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It was rough mighty rough	H
But the boys they stood by	I
And they brought him the stuff	H
For a house on the sly	I
And the old woman well she did washing and took on when no one was nigh	I
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But this 'yer luck of Dow's	J
Was so powerful mean	K
That the spring near his house	L
Dried right up on the green	K
And he sunk forty feet down for water but nary a drop to be seen	K
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Then the bar petered out	M
And the boys wouldn't stay	N
And the chills got about	M
And his wife fell away	N
But Dow in his well kept a peggin' in his usual ridikilous way	N
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One day it was June	O
And a year ago jest	P
This Dow kem at noon	O
To his work like the rest	P
With a shovel and pick on his shoulder and derringer hid in his breast	P
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He goes to the well	Q
And he stands on the brink	R
And stops for a spell	Q
Jest to listen and think	R
For the sun in his eyes jest like this sir you see kinder made the cuss blink	R
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His two ragged gals	S
In the gulch were at play	N
And a gownd that was Sal's	S
Kinder flapped on a bay	N
Not much for a man to be leavin' but his all as I've heer'd the folks say	N
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And That's a peart hoss	T
Thet you've got ain't it now	C
What might be her cost	U
Eh Oh Well then Dow	C
Let's see well that forty foot grave wasn't his sir that day anyhow	C
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For a blow of his pick	V
Sorter caved in the side	W
And he looked and turned sick	V
Then he trembled and cried	W
For you see the dern cuss had struck Water Beg your parding young man there you lied	W
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It was gold in the quartz	X
And it ran all alike	Y
And I reckon five oughts	X
Was the worth of that strike	Y
And that house with the coopilow's his'n which the same isn't bad for a Pike	Y
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Thet's why it's Dow's Flat	Z
And the thing of it is	X
That he kinder got that	Z
Through sheer contrairiness	X
For 'twas water the derned cuss was seekin' and his luck made him certain to miss	X
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Thet's so Thar's your way	N
To the left of yon tree	A2
But a look h'yur say	N
Won't you come up to tea	A2
No Well then the next time you're passin' and ask after Dow and thet's me	A2

Bret Harte (francis)

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