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Wed 3 Aug, 2005 11:10 am
TIP SAMS HAD TWINS 5 DOGS AND A MULE
http://www.wvu.edu/~lawfac/jelkins/lp-2001/noe.html
Found above...well it's a start
Author: J. T. Cotton Noe
Sarah
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Tip Sams
Tip Sams had twins
And a razor-backed sow,
Five dogs and a mule,
And an old roan cow;
A bone-spavined filly,
And a one room house,
And a little wrinkled woman.
Just as meek as a mouse;
Old Tip raised tobacco
And trafficked in skins,
For he had seven sons
In addition to the twins;
And every mother's son,
And the little mammy Jude,
Smoked a pipe all day
And the twins both chewed
But here the story closes
Of my little romance
For the seven sons are sleeping
In the battle fields of France;
And their daddy grows tobacco
And trafficks still in skins
And the wrinkled mammy
Has another set of twins
I don't know the author or origin. I found this on a note in a diary kept by my Grandfather and it likely dates from the early 19000s.
Poet Laureate Cotton (J.T.) Noe, who wrote "Tip Sams", was my great grandfather. I have first editions (many signed, including "Tip Sams") of almost all of his work. I'd be happy to photo copy for you.
Regards,
Stina
My 4th grade teacher had my class to memorize this poem. I recall a second verse as follows:
"Now Tip kept a digging
And he never lost heart
For the dogs hunted rabbits
And they caught a right smart.
The bone-spavined filly
And the mule pulled a plow
And they lived off the givings of the old rone cow
And the acorn- fattened farrow of the razor-back sow."