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SHREDS AND PATCHES.
I would lord it o'er the niggers
With a pistol of two triggers,
And a double-barreled blunderbuss beside;
And I'd howl like old Othello,
And with jealousy grow yellow
When I pleased—and raise the devil till I died.

I would swim in seas of slaughter,
And would give no room for quarter;
But would carve, and stab my victims in the neck;
And the corpse of each objector
I would give to the dissector;
For of human life I'd make a total wreck.

I would pay no bills of tailors;
But would have just twenty sailors
To swear at every tradesman that came in;
And behind them fifty slashers,
Ten clubbers, and six gashers
To finish out this bill of fare of sin.