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"THE ROAD TO RUIN"1
I
WENT into the grog-shop, Tom, and stood be-
side the bar, And drank a glass of lemonade and smoked a bad seegar.
The same old kegs and jugs was thar, the same we used to know
When we was on the round-up, Tom, some twenty years ago. The bar-tender is not the same. The one who used
to sell
Corroded tangle-foot to us, is rotting now in hell. This one has got a plate-glass front, he combs his hair quite low,
He looks just like the one we knew some twenty years ago.
Old soak came up and asked for booze and had the
same old grin
While others burned their living forms and wet their coats with gin.
Outside the doorway women stood, their faces seamed with woe
And wept just like they used to weep some twenty years ago.
1A famous saloon in West Texas carried this unusual sign.
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