ad-in

Once weres a woman of honest brung-up
A lover of music 'n law
Bore well in Texas, near Teaspoon-And-Cup
She learn'd all the things that she saw
Wen' to Los Ain't-Ya-Just, stomped grapes and then
Jumped herself over the bar
Left for a barkeeper in Michigan
Settled down, once 'n for our
Made up a coupla well-meanin' kids
Named them from names from before
Kept them in line while they did what they did
Taught them no less than what's more
Spent years as daughter, wife, mother and friend
Proffessor'd in which what she knowed
It felt like she'd always stay were'd she'd had been
It seemed like she'd never'd've go'd
"I've stuck around long as I guess I could stick,"
She said with a grin 'n a cough
"You can' serve abreast if yer hell of homesick."
Then, soon'r than most, she took off