THE FARMER OF KENTUCKY. Written for the Clay Minstrel. Tune — The Hunters of Kentucky. Ye honest Whigs and voters true, Who’d save your nation’s glory, Come listen and I’ll tell you who Can keep her name in story. ‘Tis freedom’s agriculturalist, Whose crops are always lucky. The last, the greatest, and the best, TheContinue reading “Clay’s Manure”
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Where are Your Orations Now?
THE ORATOR’S COMING. TUNE. — The Campbells are coming. The orator’s coming, huzza, huzza! The orator’s coming, huzza, huzza! The orator’s coming, our nation to save, From the grasp of false Tyler, the despotic knave, The bold demagogues that would ruin our state, Must yield to our Solon, and Cicero great, He has long litContinue reading “Where are Your Orations Now?”
Gone to Texas
HERE’S A HEALTH TO OUR OWN HARRY CLAY. Tune, — Hurrah for the Bonnets o Blue. Here’s a health to the workingman’s friend. Here’s good luck to the Plough and the Loom, And who will not join in support of our cause, May light dinners and ill-luck illume. It’s good from true faith ne’er toContinue reading “Gone to Texas”
The Traitor Tyler, Again
JOHN TYLER’S SONG. Tune.— A wet sheet and a flowing sea. When Harrison, the good and brave, Was laid upon his bier, The Whigs then look’d on me to save The cause they held most dear; The hero could not die without A parting word for me: He bade me truly carry out The systemContinue reading “The Traitor Tyler, Again”
The Hero of the West
HARK! FROM THE BROAD AND NOBLE WEST. TUNE— All’s Well. Hark! from the broad and noble West — From where the hero’s ashes rest — The loud and stirring peal rings out— And comes on every breeze the shout For Harry Clay, For Harry Clay, For Harry Clay, For gallant Harry Clay ! See themContinue reading “The Hero of the West”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 