http://web2.xerox.com/digitrad/song/TWNBLLT/query/@temperance > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > This is a searchable index. Enter search keywords: > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > TWIN BALLOTS > > [text score or songwright or audio] > > TWIN BALLOTS > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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!" > > From Ozark Folksongs, Vance. Collected from Leone Duval, MO 1925. > @drink @prohibition @temperance @politics @vote > filename[ TWNBLLT > play.exe TWNBLLT > RG > > (DT of November 1995)