...Country Ballads." For drama and portraiture it can scarcely be surpassed in river-boat iconography. "And sure's you're born, they all got off Afore the smokestacks fell, — And Bludsoe's ghost went up alone In the smoke of the Prairie Belle . . . He seen his duty, a dead sure...

...lines, — " Through the hot black breath of the bumin' boat. Jim Bludso's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness. And knowed he would keep his word." It was a great stroke of modern realism to make it Jim Bludso's " cussedness," — ort,as we should...

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...'s ashore." Through the hot, black breath of the burnin' boat Jim Bludso's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word. And, sure 's you 're born, they all got off Afore the smokestacks fell, — And Bludso's ghost went up alone...

...Prairie Bell : " Through the hot-black breath of the burnin' boat Jim Bludsoe's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word." The term has even been traced back to a French origin, from the fact that the same term is used in...

...Bell : " Through, the hot-black breath of the biirnin' boat Jim Bludsoe' s voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word." The term has even been traced back to a French origin, from the fact that the same term is used in...

...Prairie Bell : " Through the hot-black breath of the burnin' boat Jim Bludsoe's voice was heard, And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word." The term has even been traced back to a French origin, from the fact that the same term is used in...

...the burning boat Jim Blndso's voice was heard ; And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knew he would keep his word. And sure's you're born, they...Bludso's ghost went up alone In the smoke of the Prairie Belie. He weren't no saint — but at judgment I'd run my chance with Jim 'Longside of some pious gentlemen...

...the burning Ijoat Jim Bludso's voice was heard ; And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knew he would keep his word. And sure's you're born, they all got off Afore the smoke-stacks fell, — And Bhidso's ghost went up alone In the smoke of the I'rairie Belle He wern't no saint — but at judgment...

...the infernal roar, " I '11 hold her nozzle agin the bank Till the last galoot 's ashore." And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knowed he would keep his word. And, sure 's you 're born, they all got off Afore the smokestacks fell, — And Bludso's ghost went up alone...