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James Whitcomb Riley - Iry And Billy Jo
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Iry an` Billy an` Jo!--
      Iry an` Billy`s _the boys_,
  An` _Jo`s_ their _dog_, you know,--
  Their pictures took all in a row.
      Bet they kin kick up a noise--
      Iry and Billy, the boys,
  And that-air little dog Jo!

  _Iry`s_ the one `at stands
      Up there a-lookin` so mild
  An` meek--with his hat in his hands,
      Like such a `bediant child--
  (_Sakes-alive_!)--An` _Billy_ he sets
  In the cheer an` holds onto Jo an` _sweats_
  Hisse`f, a-lookin` so good!  Ho-ho!
      Iry an` Billy an` Jo!

  Yit the way them boys, you know,
      Usen to jes turn in
  An` fight over that dog Jo
      Wuz a burnin`-shame-an`-a-sin !--
  Iry _he`d_ argy `at, by gee-whizz!
  That-air little Jo-dog wuz _his_!--
  An` Billy _he`d_ claim it wuzn`t so--
  `Cause the dog wuz _his`n_!--An` at it they`d go,
  Nip-an`-tugg, tooth-an`-toenail, you know--
      Iry an` Billy an` Jo!

  But their Pa--(He wuz the marshal then)
    He `tended-like `at he _jerked `em up_;
  An` got a jury o` Brickyard men
    An` helt a _trial_ about the pup:
  An` _he_ says _he_ jes like to a-died
  When the rest o` us town-boys _testified_--
      Regardin`, you know,
      Iry an` Billy an` Jo.--

  `Cause we all knowed, when _the Gypsies_ they
    Camped down here by the crick last Fall,
  They brung Jo with `em, an` give him away
    To Iry an` Billy fer nothin` at all!--
  So the jury fetched in the _verdick_ so
      Jo he ain`t _neether_ o` theirn fer _shore_--
      He`s _both_ their dog, an` jes no more!
      An` so
      They`ve quit quarrelin` long ago,
      Iry an` Billy an` Jo.
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