YOUNG TIP’S BROOM. Air — “Buy a Broom.” Come, patriots, come, and let’s clear out the kitchen, Let’s sweep out the parlor and clean the east room, Drive the Reformer whose fingers are itching To strangle our trade — so take a new broom! Take a broom, young Tip’s broom? Come, every Republican, handle aContinue reading “Young Tip’s Broom”
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Again With the Ball
WHAT HAS CAUSED THIS GREAT COMMOTION? Air— “Little Pig’s Tail.” Oh, what has caused this great commotion, Motion, motion, our country through? It is the ball A-rolling on For Tippecanoe and Morton, too, For Tippecanoe and Morton, too! And with them we’ll beat Stephen Grove, Grove, Grove is a used-up “cove,” And with them we’llContinue reading “Again With the Ball”
Fighting the British
GENERAL HARRISON. Air — “Pizen Sarpient.” When British foemen swarmed around And burned our cabins to the ground, Ri tu ral, etc., A gallant boy, brave Harrison, By noble deeds bright laurels won, Ri tu ral, etc., He fought by Wayne, where brave men bled, And where the ground was strewn with dead, Ri tuContinue reading “Fighting the British”
Dredging Up the Past
LOG CABIN AND HARD CIDER. Air — “Auld Lang Syne.” Should good old cider be despised And ne’er regarded more? Should plain log cabins be despised Our fathers built of yore? For the true old style, my boys! For the true old style! Let’s take a mug of cider now For the true old style!Continue reading “Dredging Up the Past”
Ancestry is Destiny
TIPPECANOE SONG. Air — “Rosin the Bow.” The voice of the nation has spoken, The Democrats shake in their shoes; The sceptre of Grover is broken; He shrinks at the glorious news. Chorus. All hail to the glorious West! Log cabins and yeomen, to you! The land of the brave and the blest, The homeContinue reading “Ancestry is Destiny”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 