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HELL IN TEXAS
The Devil in Hell, we're told, was
choined,
And o thousand years he there
remained.
He neither complained nor did he
groon,
But determined to start a hell of
his own.
Where he could torment the souls
of men,
Without being chained in an under-
ground pen.
So he asked the Lord if he had on
hand
Anything left when He made this
land.
The Lord said, "Yes, I have plenty
of land,
But I left it down on the Rio Grande.
The fact is, old boy, the stuff is real
The Devil said to himself, "I have
all that is needed
To make a good hell," and hence
he succeeded.
He began to put thorns all over the
trees
And mixed up the sand with millions
of tleas
He scattered tarantulas along the
roads;
Pt torns on cactus and horns on
toads
He inyth ned the horns of the
Texas stecIS
And put an addition to the rabbit's
ears.
He put a little devil in the broncho
steed
And poisoned the feet of the centi-
pede.
The rattlesnake bites you, the scor-
pion stings,
The mosquito delights you with his
buzzing wings.
Sand-burs couse you to jig and
dance,
And those who sit down will have
ants in their pants.
The Devil then said that throughout
the land
poor,
But you're welcome to it and plenty
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more."
So the Devil went down to look at
the truck
And said if he took it as a gift he
was stuck,
For after examining it carefully and
well
He concluded the place was too dry
for a hell.
So in order to get it off His hand,
The Lord promised to water the land,
For He had some water or rather
some dregs
Rather cathartic and smelled like
bad eggs.
Hence the trade was closed and the
deed was given
And the Lord went back to His home
in Heaven.
He'd arrange to keep up the Devil's
own brand,
The heat in the summer is one hun-
dred and ten,
Too hot for the Devil, too hot for
the men.
And all should be mavericks unless
they bore
Marks and scratches, or bites by the
Score.
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EC. KROPP CO.
Go see for yourself and you can tell
'Tis a hell of o place he has for a hell.
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