When Lide married him—w’y, she had to jes dee-fy
The whole popilation!—But she never bat’ an eye!
Her parents begged, and threatened—she must give him up—that he
Wuz jes “a common drunkard!”—And he wuz, appearantly.—
Swore they’d chase him off the place
Ef he ever showed his face—
Long after she’d eloped with him and married him fer shore!—
When Lide married him, it wuz “Katy, bar the door!”
When Lide married him—Well! she had to go and be
A hired girl in town somewheres—while he tromped round to see
What he could git that he could do,—you might say, jes sawed wood
From door to door!—that’s what he done—’cause that wuz best he could!
And the strangest thing, i jing!
Wuz, he didn’t drink a thing,—
But jes got down to bizness, like he someway wanted to,
When Lide married him, like they warned her not to do!
When Lide married him—er, ruther, had be’n married
A little up’ards of a year—some feller come and carried
That hired girl away with him—a ruther stylish feller
In a bran-new green spring-wagon, with the wheels striped red and yeller:
And he whispered, as they driv
To’rds the country, “Now we’ll live!”—
And somepin’ else she laughed to hear, though both her eyes wuz dim,
’Bout “trustin’ Love and Heav’n above, sence Lide married him!”