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The Nashville Ladies

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Title:     The Nashville Ladies
Author: Thomas W. Talley [More Titles by Talley]

[31]The Nashville Ladies


Dem Nashville ladies dress up fine.
Got longpail hoopskirts hanging down behīn'!
Got deir bonnets to deir shoulders an' deir noses in de sky!
Big pig! Liddle pig! Root hog, or die!


FOOTNOTE

[31] The name of the place was used where the rhyme was repeated.






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Thomas W. Talley's poem: Nashville Ladies

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