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Thread #84595 Message #4215329
Posted By: and e
14-Jan-25 - 07:03 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Drilling for Oil / Boring for Oil
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Drilling for Oil / Boring for Oil
BORING FOR OIL
As I walked out one morning in May I met a fair damsel and to her did say It's all for a fortune I am willing to toil If you'll show me some place to go boring for oil.
She stammered, she stammered, kind sir, I declare, I know of a place and I've nursed it with care, And no one has seen it since I was a child And I'll show you there's no trouble in boring for oil.
Oh, I had not bored down more than six inches or so, When the oil from my well it so freely did flow, She screamed and she hollered Oh my character's spoiled You've busted my hamgut while boring for oil. [?]
R. M. Davids
c1924. The Gordon Inferno Collection. Davids MSS. Written down by R.M. Davids, Cross X Ranch, Woodmere, Florida, Sent in to R.W. Gordon by J.C. Colcord 12/21/29.