When Lide Married Him

When Lide married him - w'y, she had to jes dee-fy The whole poppilation! - But she never bat' an eye! Her parents begged, and threatened - she must give him up - that he Wuz jes "a common drunkard!" - And he wuz, appearantly. - Swore they'd chase him off the place Ef he ever showed his face - Long after she'd eloped with him and married him fer shore! - When Lide married him, it wuz "Katy, bar the door!" When Lide married him - Well! she had to go and be A hired girl in town somewheres - while he tromped round to see What he could git that he could do, - you might say, jes sawed wood From door to door! - that's what he done - 'cause that wuz best he could! And the strangest thing, i jing! Wuz, he didn't drink a thing, - But jes got down to bizness, like he someway wanted to, When Lide married him, like they warned her not to do! When Lide married him - er, ruther, had ben married A little up'ards of a year - some feller come and carried That hired girl away with him - a ruther stylish feller In a bran-new green spring-wagon, with the wheels striped red and yeller: And he whispered, as they driv Tords the country, "Now we'll live!" - And somepin' else she laughed to hear, though both her eyes wuz dim, 'Bout "trustin' Love and Heav'n above, sence Lide married him!"