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> TWIN BALLOTS
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> TWIN BALLOTS
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> Along in November, when chill was the weather,
> Two ballots was cast in a box together;
> They nestled right up close like brolher an' brother,
> You couldn't tell one of these votes from the other.
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> They was both rum votes,
> An' sanctioned the license plan;
> But one was cast by a jolly old brewer,
> An' one by a Sunday school man.
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> The Sunday school man --- no man could be truer,
> Kept busy all summer denouncin' the brewer;
> But his temper cooled off with the change in the weather,
> An' late in the fall they both voted together.
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> The Sunday school man has allus been noted
> For fightin' saloons --- except when he voted;
> He piled up his prayers with a holy perfection,
> But he knocked 'em all down on the day of election.
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> The cunnin' old brewer was cheerful an' meller,
> Says he, "I admire this Sunday school feller,
> He's true to his church, to his party he's truer
> He talks for the Lord, but he votes for the brewer!"
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> From Ozark Folksongs, Vance. Collected from Leone Duval, MO 1925.
> @drink @prohibition @temperance @politics @vote
> filename[ TWNBLLT
> play.exe TWNBLLT
> RG
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> (DT of November 1995)