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I knowed a man which he lived in Jones	A
Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones	A
And he lived pretty much by gittin' of loans	A
And his mules was nuthin' but skin and bones	A
And his hogs was flat as his corn bread pones	A
And he had 'bout a thousand acres o' land	B
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This man which his name it was also Jones	A
He swore that he'd leave them old red hills and stones	A
Fur he couldn't make nuthin' but yallerish cotton	C
And little o' THAT and his fences was rotten	C
And what little corn he had HIT was boughten	C
And dinged ef a livin' was in the land	B
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And the longer he swore the madder he got	D
And he riz and he walked to the stable lot	D
And he hollered to Tom to come thar and hitch	E
Fur to emigrate somewhar whar land was rich	E
And to quit raisin' cock burrs thistles and sich	E
And a wastin' ther time on the cussed land	B
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So him and Tom they hitched up the mules	A
Pertestin' that folks was mighty big fools	A
That 'ud stay in Georgy ther lifetime out	F
Jest scratchin' a livin' when all of 'em mought	F
Git places in Texas whar cotton would sprout	F
By the time you could plant it in the land	F
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And he driv by a house whar a man named Brown	G
Was a livin' not fur from the edge o' town	G
And he bantered Brown fur to buy his place	A
And said that bein' as money was skace	A
And bein' as sheriffs was hard to face	A
Two dollars an acre would git the land	F
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They closed at a dollar and fifty cents	A
And Jones he bought him a waggin and tents	A
And loaded his corn and his wimmin and truck	H
And moved to Texas which it tuck	H
His entire pile with the best of luck	H
To git thar and git him a little land	F
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But Brown moved out on the old Jones' farm	I
And he rolled up his breeches and bared his arm	I
And he picked all the rocks from off'n the groun'	G
And he rooted it up and he plowed it down	G
Then he sowed his corn and his wheat in the land	F
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Five years glid by and Brown one day	F
Which he'd got so fat that he wouldn't weigh	F
Was a settin' down sorter lazily	J
To the bulliest dinner you ever see	J
When one o' the children jumped on his knee	J
And says 'Yan's Jones which you bought his land '	-
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And thar was Jones standin' out at the fence	A
And he hadn't no waggin nor mules nor tents	A
Fur he had left Texas afoot and cum	K
To Georgy to see if he couldn't git sum	K
Employment and he was a lookin' as hum	K
Ble as ef he had never owned any land	F
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But Brown he axed him in and he sot	F
Him down to his vittles smokin' hot	F
And when he had filled hisself and the floor	L
Brown looked at him sharp and riz and swore	L
That 'whether men's land was rich or poor	M
Thar was more in the MAN than thar was in the LAND '	-

Sidney Lanier

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