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Foghorn Leghorn's Lament
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Black Renaissance
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January 1, 2008
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now hold-I say, hold on now.
hawk or no hawk, it ain't right
for that boy to go terrorizin'
older folks like that
shootin' them with arrows,
callin' himself big chickenhawk
engine and dancin' with
his feathered head-piece
like some crazy mohawkin
so what if his kind hunts and
eats what we are-he's still a boy!
I tell him, you can't-I say,
cant go makiri more noise than
a couple of skeletons throwin
a fit on a tin roof, sonny
and it ain't-I say, ain't smart to
go round bitirifolks bigger than you
that's how you get hurt
Miss Prissy tell me all the time
to let the boy be; that at his age
he's harmless
and I always tell my lammy pie
there's a whole-I say, whole 'lotta
eggs with the crazy ...