The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-05-25
BETSEY AND ARE OUT.
A Farm Ballad.
wv. cARLEroN. HILLsDALE. MIcHIGA,

A Farm Ballad.
BYwM CARLETON, HILLsDALE. MICHIGAN.
Draw up the papers. lawyers. and make ZEN
For things at home are eross-ways, and Betsey
and are out
We who have worked together so long as man
Must pull in single harness, the rest OF oul
nat'ral life.
What is the natter" say you, L swami It'll
hard to tell;
Most of the years behind. us we've passed BY
1 have no other womsn-she has no other man
Only we've lived together as long as we ever can
So have talked with Betsey. and Betsey ha.
talked with me:
81 we've agreed together that we can't never
Not that we've catched each other in any terri
BILE crime
We've been gatherin' this for years little at
time.
There stock of temper we both hai. for q
Although we ne'er su,iec ted 'twould take ns
two apart:
had my various failings bred in the flesh and
And Betsey. like all good women had temper
of her own.
The first thing that remember ~hereon we dis
Was somerhin' concerning heaven-a difference
We arg'ed the thing at breakfast-we arg ed the
And the more we arg'ed the question, the more
we didn't agree
And the next remember was when we lost a
She had Kicked the bucket, certain-the question
held my own opinion, and Betsey another had
And when we were done talkIn', we both OF
us was mad.
And the next that remember, it started in a
joke,
But full for week it lasted. and neither of us
And the next was when scolded because she
And she said was mean and stingy, and hadn't
any soul.
And so that bowl kept pouring dissensions in
And so that blamed cow-critter was always a
And so that heaven we arg'ed no nearer to us
got;
But it gave US a taste of something a Thousand
times as hot.
And SO he thing kept workin' and ali the self
Always somethin' to arg'e, and somethin' sharp
to say,
And down on us come the neighbors, couple
And lent their kindest sarvice for to help the
thing along.
And there has been days together-and many
weary week
W
And have been thinkin' and thinkin' the
whole of the winter and fall.
If can't live kind with a woman, why then
won't at all.
And so have talked with Betsey, and Betsey
has talked with me,
And we have agreed together, that we can't
never agree;
mine shall be mine;
And I'll put it in the agreement, and take it to
her to sign.
Write on the paper. lawyer-the very first para
OF all the farm and five stock, that she shall
have her half;
For she ha> helped to earn it through many a
And its nothing more than justice that Betsey
has her pay.
thrive and roam.
But women are skeery critters unless they have
home
And have always determined, and never
failed to say,
That Betsey never Should want home, il was
There is little hard money that's drawin' tol'-
able pay.
A couple of hundred dollars laid by for rainy
day.
Safe in the hands of good men, and easy to get at;
Put IN another clause, there, and give her half
of that.
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Yes, divorce is cheap, sir, but take no stock in
such
True and fair married her. when she was blithe
and young;
And Betsey was al'ays good to me, excepting
with her tongue.
1nce' when l was young as you, and not SO
For me she mittened a lawyer, and several 9TH
er chaps;
Aud all of 'em was fustered and fairly taken
down,
And for time was counted the luckiest man
in town.
Once when had a fever-I won't forget it soon
was not as noasted turkey and crazy as
Never an hour went by when she was out of
sight;
,he nursed me true and tender, and stuck to me
day and night.
And if ever house was tidy and ever a kitchen
Her house and kitchen was tidy as any ever
And don't complain of Betsey or any of her
other facts.
10 draw up the papers lawyer; and I'll go home
tonight
Ind read the agreements to her and see if it's all
And then in the mornin' I'll sell to tradin'
Ind kiss the chill d that was left us and out in |
the world i'll go.
And one thug put in the paper. that first to me
didn't occur
hat when I'm dead at last she shall bring me |
back to her; |
Ind lay me under the naples planted years |
ago,
hen she and was happy, before we quarreled |
SO.
And when she dies, 1 wish that she would be
laid by me;
And lyin' together in silence. perhaps we will |
agree;
Ind if ever we meet in heaven wouldn't think |
it queer
we loved each other the better because we |
have quarrelled here