John Hay - Pike County Ballads (1871)

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I think that saving a little child
And bringing him to his own,
Is a derned sight better business
Than loafing around the throne.

John Hay

He weren't no saint—but at jedgment
I'd run my chance with Jim.
'Longside of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn't shook hands with him.
He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing—
And went for it thar and then;
And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard
On a man that died for men.

John Hay

At my door the Pale Horse stands
To carry me to unknown lands.

John Hay

The people will come to their own at last,—
God is not mocked forever.

John Hay

I'll hold her nozzle again the bank Till the last galoot's ashore.

John Hay

He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.

John Hay

And I think that saving a little child,
And fotching him to his own,
Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around The Throne.

John Hay

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

John Hay