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Look at that tract of land there five good acres	A
Held out of use these thirty years and more	B
They keep a cow there See the cow's there now	C
She can't eat up the grass there is so much	D
And in these thirty years these houses here	E
Here all around here have been built This lot	F
Is worth five times the worth it had before	B
These houses were built round it	G
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Well by God	H
I am in part responsible for this	I
I started out to be a first rate lawyer	J
Was I first rate lawyer Well I won	K
These acres for the Burtons in the day	L
When I could tell you what is gavel kind	M
Advowsons corodies frank tenements	N
Scutage escheats feoffments heriots	N
Remainders and reversions and mortmain	K
Tale special and tale general tale female	O
Fees absolute conditional copyholds	N
And used to stand and argue with the courts	N
The difference 'twixt a purchase limitation	K
The rule in Shelley's case	N
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And so it was	N
In my good days I won these acres here	E
For old man Kingston's daughter who in turn	K
Bound it with limitation for the life	P
Of selfish sons who keep a caretaker	J
Who keeps a cow upon it There's the cow	C
The land has had no use for thirty years	N
The children are kept off it Elenor Murray	Q
This girl whose death makes such a stir one time	R
Was playing there but that's another story	Q
I only say for the present these five acres	N
Made Elenor Murray's life a thing of waste	S
As much as anything and a damn sight more	B
For think a minute	T
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Kingston had a daughter	J
Married to Colonel Burton in Kentucky	Q
And Kingston's son was in the Civil War	B
But just before the war the Burtons deeded	U
These acres here which she inherited	V
From old man Kingston to this Captain Kingston	K
The son aforesaid of Old Kingston Well	W
The deed upon its face was absolute	X
But really was a deed in trust	Y
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The Captain	K
Held title for a year or two and then	K
An hour before he fought at Shiloh made	Z
A will and willed acres to his wife	P
Fee simple and forever Now you'd think	A2
That contemplating death he'd make a deed	B2
Giving these acres back to Mrs Burton	K
The sister who had trusted him I don't know	K
What comes in people's heads but I believe	C2
The want of money is the root of evil	D2
As well as love of money for this Captain	K
Perhaps would make provision for his wife	P
And infant son thought that the chiefest thing	E2
No matter how he did it being poor	F2
Willed this land as he did But anyway	L
He willed it so went into Shiloh's battle	D2
And fell dead on the field	G2
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What happened then	K
They took this will to probate As I said	H2
I was a lawyer then you may believe it	G
Was hired by the Burtons to reclaim	I2
These acres from the Widow Kingston's clutch	D
Under this wicked will And so I argued	J2
The will had not been witnessed according to law	K2
Got beat upon that point in the lower court	L2
But won upon it in the upper courts	N
Then next I filed a bill to set aside	M2
This deed the Burtons made to Captain Kingston	K
Oh I was full of schemes expedients	N
In those days I can tell you Widow Kingston	K
Came back and filed a cross bill asked the court	L2
To confirm the title in her son and her	J
As heirs of Captain Kingston let the will	N2
Go out of thought and reckoning Here's the issue	N
You understand the case no doubt We fought	O2
Through all the courts I lost in the lower court	L2
As I lost on the will There was the deed	B2
For love and affection and one dollar we	Q
Convey and warrant lots from one to ten	K
In the city of LeRoy to Captain Kingston	K
To be his own forever	J
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How to go	K
Behind such words and show the actual trust	Y
Inhering in the deed that was the job	P2
But here I was resourceful as before	B
Found witnesses to testify they heard	Q2
This Captain Kingston say he held the acres	N
In trust for Mrs Burton but I lost	R2
Before the chancellor had to appeal	S2
But won on the appeal and thus restored	T2
These acres to the Burtons And for this	N
What did I get Three hundred lousy dollars	N
That's why I smoke a pipe that's also why	U2
I quit the business when I saw the business	N
Was making ready to quit me By God	H
My life is waste so far as it was used	V2
By this law business and no coroner	J
Need hold an inquest on me to find out	W2
What waste was in my life God damn the law	K2
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Well then I go my way and take my fee	Q
And pay my bills The Burtons have the land	X2
And turn a cow upon it See how nice	N
A playground it would be I've seen ten sets	N
Of children try to play there hey you hear	E
The caretaker come out get off of there	Y2
And then the children scamper climb the fence	N
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Well after while the Burtons die The will	N2
Leaves these five acres to their sons for life	P
Remainder to the children of the sons	N
The sons are living yet at middle life	P
These acres have been tied up twenty years	N
They may be tied up thirty years beside	M2
The sons can't sell it and their children can't	Z2
Only the cow can use it as it stands	N
It grows more valuable as the people come here	E
And bring in being Elenor Murrays children	K
And make the land around it populous	N
That's what makes poverty this holding land	X2
It makes the taxes harder on the poor	F2
It makes work scarcer and it takes your girls	N
And boys and throws them into life half made	Z
Half ready for the battle Is a country	Q
Free where the laws permit such things Your priests	N
Your addle headed preachers mouthing Christ	A3
And morals prohibition laws to force	N
People to be good to save the girls	N
When every half wit knows environment	B3
Takes natures made unstable in these homes	N
Of poverty and does the trick	C3
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That baronet	T
Who mocked our freedom sailing back for England	D3
And said Your Liberty Statue in the harbor	J
Is just a joke that baronet is right	E3
While such conditions thrive	F3
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Well look at me	Q
Who for three hundred dollars take a part	G3
In making a cow pasture for a cow	C
For fifty years or so I hate myself	H3
And were the Burtons better than this Kingston	K
Kingston would will away what was not his	N
The Burtons took what is the gift of God	H
As much as air and fenced it out of use	N
Save for the cow aforesaid for the lives	N
Of sons in being	E2
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Oh I know you think	A2
I have a grudge I have	I3
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This Elenor Murray	Q
Was ten years old I think this law suit ended	U
Twelve years or so and I was running down	K
Was tippling just a little every day	L
And I came by this lot one afternoon	K
When school was out a sunny afternoon	K
The children had no place except the street	J3
To play in they were standing by the fence	N
The cow was way across the lot and Elenor	Q
Was looking through the fence some boys and girls	N
Standing around her and I said to them	K3
Why don't you climb the fence and play in there	Q
And Elenor she always was a leader	Q
And not afraid of anything said Come on	K
And in a jiffy climbed the fence the children	K
Some quicker and some slower followed her	Q
Some said They don't allow it Elenor	Q
Stood on the fence flung up her arms and crowed	L3
And said What can they do He says to do it	G
Pointing at me And in a moment all of them	K3
Were playing and were shouting in the lot	F
And I stood there and watched them half malicious	N
And half in pleasure watching them at play	L
Then I heard hey the care taker ran out	W2
And said Get out of there I will arrest you	N
He drove them out and as they jumped the fence	N
Some said He told us to pointing at me	Q
And Elenor Murray said Why what a lie	U2
And then the care taker grabbed Elenor Murray	Q
And said You are the wildest of them all	M3
I spoke up saying Leave that child alone	K
I won this God damn land for those you serve	N3
They use it for a cow and nothing else	N
And let these children run about the streets	N
When there are grass and dandelions there	Q
In plenty for these children and the cow	C
And space enough to play in without bothering	E2
That solitary cow I took his hands	N
Away from Elenor Murray he and I	U2
Came face to face with clenched fists but at last	O3
He walked away the children scampered off	P3
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Next day however they arrested me	Q
For aiding in a trespass clausam fregit	O3
And fined me twenty dollars and the costs	N
Since then the cow has all her way in there	Q
And Elenor Murray left this rotten place	N
Went to the war came home and died and proved	O3
She had the sense to leave so vile a world	O3
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George Joslin ending up his days with dreams	N
Of youth in Europe travels and with talk	Q3
Stirred to a recollection of a face	N
He saw in Paris fifty years before	Q
Because the face resembled Elenor Murray's	N
Explored his drawers and boxes where he kept	O3
Mementos treasures of the olden days	N
And found a pamphlet came to Merival	M3
With certain recollections and with theories	N
Of Elenor Murray	Q