A ten-spot is a bill with the number 10 on it in big letters. Usually worth ten dollars.

My name is Abe
And I never done no sin!
I feed the slave
An' my face is on the fin.
I never tole
No-one nothin' but the truth...
So why'd ya put that bullet in me,
John Wilkes Booth?

A piece of oral doggerel I learned from an old lawyer friend of my Dad's back in the Fifties.


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