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Is it any wonder that he threw all restraint aside, untethered,
An' let loose a hundr'd antics that for forty years he'd gathered?
Brother, don't you recollect how he whirled an' jumped an' twisted?
He showed them there people capers that they didn't know existed.

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An' he murmured unto me, in the red-hot of the revel,
“David danced before the Lord—I will try it on the devil!”