FAIR TO MIDDLIN'
There lived in Middle-USA,
Two half-brothers of different mothers.
Both answered "A Call to Arms" one day.
Each embraced each in spite of their druthers.
Then, as two mothers stood with open mouth,
Bernie went north, and Ernie went south.
All too soon the debt of battle was paid
Amongst the casualties of war,
Where both brothers' bodies fell and laid
In a heap of four thousand or more.
Slowly drew the bows to a muted score
As a duet of two fiddles was played.
Genuflected, two mothers thus prayed
At the gape of Earthly Mothers' mouth.
Then aligned on the eastern star, they laid
Bernie to the north, as Ernie laid south.