The Sour Apple Tree or Jeff Davis' Last Ditch

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Lyrics by J.W. Turner
Music composed by J.W. Turner

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The Yankee boys have caught him --
The traitor, Old Jeff D! --
I wonder if they'll hang him
To the "Sour Apple Tree!"
Don't you think it will be right!
And justice, I declare!
To hang him up "to dry," my boys
And dangle in the air!

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The Yankee boys have caught him --
The traitor old Jeff D! --
I wonder if they'll hang him
On the "Sour Apple Tree!"

O, when our Soldiers found him,
I'll bet he did "look rich"
With the "petticoats" around him
As he stood in the "last ditch!"

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Old Jeff, he wasn't wise
With "boots" on! don't you see!
It was a splendid sight I'm sure,
South "Southern chivalry!"
The Yankee boys have caught him,
The traitor old Jeff D! --
I wonder if they'll hang him,
On the "Sour Apple Tree!"

Now if they hang him, it will be
A moral lesson, taught
To those who might in future time
Like him be evil fraught.
Some think it will be right --
Whatever it may be,
I really think they'll hang him
To the "Sour Apple Tree!"
The Yankee boys &c.