Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1905-10-26

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Draw up the papers, lawyer, and
make em good and stout,
For things at home are crossways and
Betsey and / are out.
We, who have worked together 50 long
as man and wife,
Must pull in single harness for the rest
of our nat raj life.
''What is the natter" say you. |
swan it's hard to tell
Most of the years behind us we've
passed by very we'll
have no other woman, she has no
other man
Only we've lived together so long as
we ever can.
So I've talked with Betsey and Betsey
has talked with me,
And SO we've agreed together that we
can't near agree.
Not that we've catched each other in
any terrible crime;
We've been a-gathering this for years,
little at time
There was stock of temper we both
had for start,
Although we never suspected 'twoud
take us two apart,
I had my various failings, bred in the
| flesh and bone
And Betsey, like all good women, had
temper of her own.
The first thing remember wherein
we disagreed
Was something concerning heaven-a
difference in our creed,
We arg ed the thing at breakfast; we
arg'ed the thing at tea;
And the more we arg ed the question
the more we didn't agree.
And the next that I remember was
when we lost cow,
She had kicked the bucket for certain;
the question was only-howY
I held my own opinion, and Betsey
another had;
And when we were done attacking we
both of us was mad.
And the next that remember, it start
ed in joke,
But for full week it lasted and
neither of us spoke,
And the next was when | scolded be-
cause she broke bowl,
And she said / was mean and stingy,
and hadn any soul.
And so that bowl kept pourin' dissen-
.sions in our cup;
And so that blamed cow-critter was al
ways a-comin' up,
And so that heaven we arg ed no near
er to us got,
But it gave us taste of somethin' a
thousand times as hot.
And so the thing kept workin', and all
the selfsame way;
Always somethin' to arg'e, and some
thin sharp to say;
And down on us came the neighbors, 6
couple dozen strong,
And lent their kindest sarvice for tx
help the thing along.
And there has been days together-an
many a weary week
We was both of cross and spunky, ant
both too proud to speak,
And l have been thinkin' and thinkin
the whole of the winter and fall
If can't live kind with woman, VIII,
then, | won't at all.
And so have talked with Betsey, anG
Betsey has talked with me,
J And we have agreed together that W
can't never agree;
: And what is hers shall be hers, AM
what is mine shall be mine,
e And I'll put it in the agreement an
y take it to her to sign.
Write in the paper, lawyer-the YER
b first paragraph
: Of all the farm and livestock that sh
shall have her half;
@ For she has helped to earn it throug
many weary day,
IS And it's nothing more than justic
v that Betsey has her pay.
IS Give her the house and homestead
It man can thrive and roam,
But women are skeery critters, unles
It they have home;
And l have always determined, an
Ii never failed to say,
That Betsey never should want hon
is if was taken away.
d There's a little hard money that
DRAWN toll rable pay,
ID A couple of hundred dollars laid by fl
a rainy day;
IN Safe in the hands of good men al
easy to get at;
Put in another clause there and giv
her half of that
Yes, 1 see you smile, sir, at my givil
her so much
i'll Yes, divorce is cheap, sir, but / tai
S, no stock in such
N True and fair married her, when 81
or was blithe and young,
an And Betsey was al avs good to me, e
40 ceptin' with her tongue.
y, Once, when L was young as you, al
IA not so smart perhaps,
MT For me she mittened lawyer al
no several other chaps;
st And all of them was hustered and fai
to ly taken down,
us And l, for a time, was counted {
D. luckiest man in town.
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