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Oh, listen while I sing a song,
That now runs through my pate, oh!
About a funny time we had
In Pennsylvania State, oh!
We made a party up, to go
Upon a short excursion,
And though on a new plan we'd throw
Ourselves for our diversion.
Sal and our ma went per railroad,
And I went on my mare, oh,
But Mary Jane took a balloon,
For she was fond of air, oh!
The railroad cars ere very long,
Did shuttle off the track, oh!
And pitched poor mammy in the mud,
And Sally on her back, oh!
The heat burst Mary Jane's balloon,
And she fell quite fair, oh!
She fell afoul the telegraph,
And danced in the air, oh!
The locomotives lay beneath,
A man cut loose the wire, oh!
Poor Mary, from the frying pan
Fell right into the fire, oh !
At this my mare so frightened got,
That she jumped through her skin, oh
A thousand crows came flying around,
Quite anxious to begin, oh !
The mare jumped up and ran away,
The crows seized Mary Jane, oh!
Flew with her to a steeple top,
And hung her to the vane, oh!
A thunderstorm then o'er her broke,
And Mary laughed in mirth, oh!
And thought she'd catch a streak of light
And slide down to the earth, oh!
She traveled down so awful quick,
She stuck into the ground, oh!
If she hadn't had her bustle on,
She never had been found, oh!


Credit: Dan Rice, American Humorist Dan Rice's Great Song Book [S. I. }: s.d., 1866