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First Line: Pore-folks lives at lonesomeville
Last Line: Goes to lonesomeville!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Poverty; Santa Claus; Winter; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint


PORE-FOLKS lives at Lonesomeville --
Lawzy! but they're pore
Houses with no winders in,
And hardly any door:
Chimbly all tore down, and no
Smoke in that at all --
Ist a stovepipe through a hole
In the kitchen wall!

Pump 'at's got no handle on;
And no wood-shed -- And, wooh! --
Mighty cold there, choppin' wood,
Like pore-folks has to do! --
Winter-time, and snow and sleet
Ist fairly fit to kill! --
Hope to goodness Santy Claus
Goes to Lonesomeville!





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