Elton Camp Poet Rhyme

To Those Who Criticize the South

To Those Who Criticize the South

By Elton Camp

So you think that it’s our cousins we marry
And it’s too long at the saloon we all tarry?

That we all have plenty of blacked-out teeth
That we are all only mountain men beneath?

Especially the summer, no shoes we wear
And frizzy and uncombed we keep our hair?

We have several lazy hound dogs in the yard
And to get us to do any work is very hard?

That standard English we are unable to speak
Catfish, possum and grits are what we eat?

Despite all the unfavorable things you say
When you retire, you will come our way

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Toquyen Harrell May 26, 2012 at 6:24 AM "Lol, very funny, Elton! Love it. Toquyen" Elton Camp May 26, 2012 at 9:46 AM Thanks. I wrote it mainly for a "yankee" brother-in-law who moved here and is always throwing off on the South. But never have I heard of anybody retiring and moving North. Elton