‘member the song Bobbie gentry wrote

bout the South and all their bugs?

“Roll up a newspaper and swat em.”

Thats the last line.

Have you ever been so frustrated

cause your paper wasn’t heavy enough or wide enough

to make Toast of all them nasty things?

Here’s a solution for sweat drenched,

bone tired from hoein, southerners.

It can be used by yankees too but they don’t rightly know

the extent of sufferin all southerners go through in August.

Yes sirree this is the month that makes or breaks you,

Everythig comes ripe all at the same time,

and the menfolk go fishin all in a pack.

Never a thought for the women out back

hoein and pickin and puttin up all the harvest,

just one step ahead of them bugs!

But you bet them sames menfolk will be soppin

the bottom of the bowl with cornbread come January

when them ‘maters and okry are all stewed up!

Anyways’ yall knows this overnight way to rid your garden of the SLUG

Nasty slimy creatures, worse than the gollum from Tolkien’s tale

I know you know that one!

Just set out a Bama’s lid filled with a swaller or two of beer

in the morning it am clear

Slugs love beer much as we do!

Wonder though;

do slugs get drunk, THEN drown?

Or are they fallin in the lid tryin to get their fill

ahead of them other critters and THEN they drown?