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I was drivin' my two mule waggin	A
With a lot o' truck for sale	B
Towards Macon to git some baggin'	A
Which my cotton was ready to bale	B
And I come to a place on the side o' the pike	C
Whar a peert little winter branch jest had throw'd	D
The sand in a kind of a sand bar like	C
And I seed a leetle ways up the road	D
A man squattin' down like a big bull toad	D
On the ground a figgerin' thar in the sand	D
With his finger and motionin' with his hand	D
And he looked like Ellick Garry	E
And as I driv up I heerd him bleat	D
To hisself like a lamb Hauh nine from eight	D
Leaves nuthin' and none to carry	E
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And Ellick's bull cart was standin'	A
A cross wise of the way	F
And the little bull was a expandin'	A
Hisself on a wisp of hay	F
But Ellick he sat with his head bent down	A
A studyin' and musin' powerfully	E
And his forrud was creased with a turrible frown	A
And he was a wurken' appearently	E
A 'rethmetic sum that wouldn't gee	E
Fur he kep' on figgerin' away in the sand	D
With his finger and motionin' with his hand	D
And I seed it WAS Ellick Garry	E
And agin I heard him softly bleat	D
To hisself like a lamb Hauh nine from eight	D
Leaves nuthin' and none to carry	E
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I woa'd my mules mighty easy	E
Ellick's back was towards the road	D
And the wind hit was sorter breezy	E
And I got down off'n my load	D
And I crep' up close to Ellick's back	G
And I heerd him a talkin' softly thus	H
Them figgers is got me under the hack	G
I caint see how to git out'n the muss	H
Except to jest nat'ally fail and bus'	H
My crap leen calls for nine hundred and more	I
My counts o' sales is eight hundred and four	I
Of cotton for Ellick Garry	E
Thar's eight ought four jest like on a slate	D
Here's nine and two oughts Hauh nine from eight	D
Leaves nuthin' and none to carry	E
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Them crap leens oh them crap leens	H
I giv one to Pardman and Sharks	H
Hit gobbled me up like snap beans	H
In a patch full o' old fiel' larks	H
But I thought I could fool the crap leen nice	H
And I hauled my cotton to Jammel and Cones	H
But shuh 'fore I even had settled my price	H
They tuck affidavy without no bones	H
And levelled upon me fur all ther loans	H
To the 'mount of sum nine hundred dollars or more	I
And sold me out clean for eight hundred and four	I
As sure as I'm Ellick Garry	E
And thar it is down all squar and straight	D
But I can't make it gee fur nine from eight	D
Leaves nuthin' and none to carry	E
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Then I says Hello here Garry	E
However you star' and frown	A
Thare's somethin' fur YOU to carry	E
Fur you've worked it upside down	A
Then he riz and walked to his little bull cart	D
And made like he neither had seen nor heerd	D
Nor knowed that I knowed of his raskilly part	D
And he tried to look as if HE wa'nt feared	D
And gathered his lines like he never keered	D
And he driv down the road 'bout a quarter or so	H
And then looked around and I hollered Hello	H
Look here Mister Ellick Garry	E
You may git up soon and lie down late	D
But you'll always find that nine from eight	D
Leaves nuthin' and none to carry	E
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Macon Georgia	J

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