Peanuts An’ Sweet Pertaters

I like peanuts an’ sweet pertaters

Best uv any production uv nature;

Sweet ‘taters a peck an’ peanuts a quart,

If ‘twasn’t for both my life would be short.

What kin’ uv sircus to me would it be

If peanuts warn’t constantly goin’ in me;

The snappin’ uv shucks is music, I vum,

An’ softens the discords uv life’s dreary hum.

The scent uv pertaters pervadin’ the room

Is sweeter to me than any perfume.

Sweet taters for food but peanuts! yum, yum;

They answer me best for terbacker an’ rum.

If ever I’m lost an’ kennot be found,

Jes’ foller the shucks thet scatter the ground.

O, taters a peck an’ peanuts a quart;

If ‘twasn’t for both my life would be short.

March 8, ‘92

Pub. in Conn. Valley Ad.