The Genius and the Good O'Boy

this story's about a good o'boy that knows his wits ain't the keenest and a writer that thought he was cock-of-the-walk we'll refer to him as genius genius liked to hang around o'boy and make fun of him all day long he would pick and poke and make sick jokes o'boy would just laugh along now genius decided to protect his work so he sent it to washington said i'll be a star, yea i'm gonna go far and my songs'll be number one. well, his head began to swell a mite when he started to receive the kind of deals that come in the mail when you register with the L.O.C. now, o'boy might be simple folk. he don't claim to have a great mind. but he can spot a scam, size up a man and read between the lines. o'boy tried to warn him said be careful or ya might get burned but the know-it-alls are bound to fall cause there's nutin else they can learn. they said they'd sell genius his spotlight make his name known all around so he bent right over, stuck his head in the clover and pulled his britches down. well i can't really say how it happened but the story soon spread around and before ya know it that singing poet was the biggest joke in town. now, we can make fun of the downhom'eez laugh at their back-wood way make the simple folk the butt of our joke but sometimes it just don't pay.