Isa Nutter + 

Doc Meyers said I had satyriasis, + 

And Doc Hill called it leucaemia⁠— + 

But I know what brought me here: + 

I was sixty-four but strong as a man + 

Of thirty-five or forty. + 

And it wasn’t writing a letter a day, + 

And it wasn’t late hours seven nights a week, + 

And it wasn’t the strain of thinking of Minnie, + 

And it wasn’t fear or a jealous dread, + 

Or the endless task of trying to fathom + 

Her wonderful mind, or sympathy + 

For the wretched life she led + 

With her first and second husband⁠— + 

It was none of these that laid me low⁠— + 

But the clamor of daughters and threats of sons, + 

And the sneers and curses of all my kin + 

Right up to the day I sneaked to Peoria + 

And married Minnie in spite of them⁠— + 

And why do you wonder my will was made + 

For the best and purest of women? + 