Till the frightened, tremblin' critters
Leaped beneath the angry slaps.
Lord a'mighty, how they scampered!
While I gripped the lines in tight,
As the wagon box sailed upward
Like a mighty wind-borne kite.
Down below us ran the hosses,
While we floated through the air,
But through all that roaring shakeup,
You, dear, never turned a hair.


10

When the lightning flashed around us,
Rabbits stopped to let us by,--
Looked as if they said by halting,
"We can't race with things that fly!"
Coyotes sneaked off in the slough grass,
Prairie dogs stayed in their holes;
We was lubricated blazes,--
Couldn't stop to save our souls.
Up the hills we flew like swallows,
Down the slopes, a hurricane,
Bumped and jumped the humps and hollows,
Dragged the ground and riz again.
And I prayed, "Dear Lord, save Nancy,
For a desperate lover's sake!"
You was hangin' to my gallus,
And I felt it strain and break.