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Sweet Betsy from Pike
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Iggy Pop
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Do you remember sweet Betsy from Pike? She crossed the wide prairies with her lover Ike With two yoke of cattle and one spottled hog And a tall Shanghai rooster and an old yellow dog They soon reached the desert where Betsy gave out And down in the sand she lay rolling about Ike half distracted looked on in surprise Saying, "Betsy, get up, you'll get sand in your eyes" Sweet Betsy got up in a great dеal of pain She declared shе'd go back to Pike County again But Ihe, he just sighed then they fondly embraced So he traveled along with his arm 'round her waist They swam the wide rivers and climbed the tall peaks They camped upon prairies for weeks upon weeks Starvation and cholera, hard work and slaughter They reached California 'spite of hell and high water Then a miner said, "Betsy, will you dance with me?" She answers, "I will if you want make two free I can't dance too hard, do you want to know why? Because I'm so full of that strong alkali" This Pike County couple got married, of course But Ike became jealous, obtained a divorce And Betsy, well-satisfied, said with a shout "Goodbye, you big lummox, I'm glad you backed out!"
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