Worm or beetle -- drought or tempest -- on a farmer's land may fall,Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it whenHe's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

And that was the way The deuce was to pay As it always is, at the close of the day That gave us-- Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! (With some restrictions, the fault-finders say) That which, please God, we will keep for aye Our National Independence!

Not all the labor of the earth Is done by hardened hands.

There's lots of people--this town wouldn't hold them; Who don't know much excepting what's told them.