HOW MANY CLAY MEN ARE THERE? DEDICATED TO THE CLAY CLUB OF SALEM, N.J. Tune — Rosin the Bow. Johnny Tyler in good time will know. By the shouts of the Whigs every where. Whose voices of thunder will show Full “how many Clay men are there.” The Captain will hear the sad news. WhichContinue reading “Feet of Clay”
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Time’s A-Wastin’
Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Applications for the Viable Paradise Writers’ Workshop are still open for this year, but the door shuts on June 15, so if you’re interested, better get your submission ready soon. Viable Paradise is an intensive one-week residential workshop for science fiction and fantasy writers, held annually in the…
A Folk Song? No, A Polk Song!
THE FIRST POLK SONG. Tune— “Old Dan Tucker“ Ah, Matty Van’s a used up man,And Lewis Cass he cannot pass,And as for our old friend Tecumseh,He’s lost amidst the “Rumsey Dumsey.”Hurrah, hurrah, the Nation’s risin’For Harry Clay and Frelinghuysen. There’s Stewart he can’t run at all,And Buck’ kept quiet in his stall,The Loco’s are uncertainContinue reading “A Folk Song? No, A Polk Song!”
Harry of the West
A CATCH. Air — Here’s a health to all good lasses. Here’s success to old Kentucky, Ever true and ever lucky; Still his grateful country’s stay! Freemen ’round your patriot rally! Raise the cry from hill and valley! “Gratitude to Henry Clay!” A “Catch” is what we’d call a “round” these days; part singing. LikeContinue reading “Harry of the West”
Off on the Frontier
THE FIGHTING CAPTAIN By F. B. Graham, Esq. TUNE — “It will never do to give it up so.” When Markle marched to the frontier, He knew not what it was to fear, The Tory force the British sent, But this was e’er his sentiment, It will never do to give it up so, ItContinue reading “Off on the Frontier”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 