Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1920-07-07
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The following has been copied
from q paper, name unknown to us,
and forwarded to us by subscriber
with the request that we reproduce
the poem in The Courier:
Away Down in Dixie.
Away down in Dixie
They're having an awful time;
! It's all about the boil weevil-
He seems to stand the cline.
He's got home-he's got home.
The first time | saw him
| | saw him on the square,;
The next time ! saw him
He had his family there.
lie had Il home-he had a home.
| The farmer took the boil weevil
| And buried him in hot sand:
| The boil weevil says to the farmer,
Hotter than this | can stand.
I've got "a hOme-Ive got Il home.
The farmer took the boil weevil
! And laid him in a red-hot pan;
The boil weevil says to the farmer,
"l'll stand It like man.
I've got a hOme-I've got a home.
The farmer took the boil weevil
And hit him with u brick;
The boil weevil said, Look out, Mr..
Farmer,
You're liable to make me sick"
I've got home-I've got a home
The farmer took the boil weevil
And laid him on the ice,
And the weevil says to the farmer,
This most surely Is nice.'
I've got q hOme-Ibya pot n bop,o
The farmer says to the boil weevil,
IN plow you under deep;
The boil weevil says to the farmer,
Right out again III creep"
I've got home-I've got home.
The farmer says to the boil weevil,
Ill burn you up with fire."
| The boil weevil says to the farmer,
| You are dog-goned LIAR
I've got home-I've got home.
The boil weevil says to the farmer,
II am Your bosom friend,
i've raised the price on every bale
THAT'S gone down to the gin''
Since I've had home-l've had
The farmer took the boil weevil
And laid him on the fence,
And says, Every leg OH you
Looks just like eighteen cents"
You can have a home-You can
have home.
The farmer says to the boil weevil,
Well, now, III let you run
If you'll eat up the other crops
And just let mine alone"
You can have a home--You can
have a home.
The boil weevil works in the day
time,
When the sun is shining bright,
And all he fails to get that day
| He comes back and gets that night
| Hes got 4 home He's got nonrr.
! fhe fatmer says 80 his Ghildreu,
| IA send you TO tho schools,
| But since the weevils struck this
jAni
F., HuN'N grow up like d0rned fools
And stay at homeland stay at
| ilome!"
The boil weevil says to the farmer,
"1'll teach you little sense
III teach you to raise your own food
stuffs
And thus cut down expense"
| I've got home-I've got home.
The boil weevil says to Georgians,
III bet you what I'll do
III have you fellows on the bum
| In the next year or two
You'll have no home-You'll have
no home.
The boil weevil says to the LAWYER,
Its me you cannot sue,
With all your legal talent
'Gainst me you'll find no clue"
You've got no case-You've got no
case.
The boil weevil says to the banker,
You don't know what a panic is,
For when l get located right
I'll paralyze your biz
You'll have no home-You'll have
no home.
The boil weevil says to the merchant
You'll find when debts are due
That / have eat them out of crops,
| And out Of credit, too
They'll have no home - They'll
have no home.
1 he boil weevil says to the preacher,
Now you won't stand no show;
You might as we'll close I'D your
church
And pack your duds and co.
You'll have no home-You'll have
no home.
The boil weeyil saws IN snnrtioo fo,b,