The Gungawamp Cow Club (revised)

                                          (The Cow Club 1 25 08)

The Cow Club gethers ev’ry night

     In Stokes’ grocery store,

To set around the stove an’ talk

     Important matters o’er.

For there are many, many things

     Which must be settled there;

An’ this the Cow Club does each night

     With thoroughness an’ care.

The railroad hez to take its turn,

     An’ then the trolley, which

Hez not arrived, although it will

     Ef there’s no legal hitch.

The doin’s down in Washin’ton,

     All questions great or small;

The bizniz boom, the great canal,

     The Cow Club raps them all.

Marconi’s wireless is a thing

     Thet’s jest got up to sell,

Them air machines will never fly,

     They know thet purty well.

An’ when they’ve b’en all round the globe,

     An’ got each other straight,

They come back into Gungawamp

     To finish their debate.

The same ol’ questions hol’ the floor,

     The same old nightly boast;

“Who gits the biggest mess uv milk,

     Whose cow is wuth the most?”

There’s where they hem an’ hitch an’ haw,

     An’ finally collide;

Thet seems to be the on’y thing

     The Cow Club can’t decide.

What tho’ the wintry winds blow cold,

     An’ snow is on the ground;

What tho’ the rain beats hard an’ fast,

     The Cow Club gits around.

Fur how could things be run at home,

     An; things abroad galore,

Ef this same Cow Club didn’t meet

     Each night at Sokes’s store?

c. Jan. 25, 1908