Git Up an’ Git

The world it likes grit, and plenty uv it,

But what it wants most is git up an’ git;

No matter how good or how wholesome the show,

It won’t ever git without plenty uv go.

Though the heroine be pretty, the hero quite brave,

The villain ferocious there is nothing ‘twill save

The show from a plunge in the bottomless pit,

Except that it savors out git up an’ git.

The same thing is true of the auty mobile,

When it kicks in the traces an’ acts so unreal;

The man at the helm he jest pitches a fit

Ef it isn’t plum loaded with git up an’ git.

It is so with the airship, it is so with the hoss,

An’ ev’ry blame product that man comes across;

No man or no woman fur bizniz is fit,

Ef they hain’t bilin’ over with git up an’ git.

April 25, ‘10