Mudcat Café message #1636618

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Thread #87599 Message #1636618
Posted By: Abby Sale
29-Dec-05 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: Happy! – Dec 29 (Bill Gladstone)
Subject: Happy! – Dec 29 (Bill Gladstone)

Happy Birthday!

Prime Minister, Bill Gladstone

was born 12/29/1809
(d1898)


          Great distress was in the west,
          Disraeli got a dreadful scare,
          The land of Connaught, depend upon it,
          It was near to be civil war;
          Gladstone now will quell the row
          And I hope next year there will be no need;
          Believe me now, it's true you'll find
          You'll see a row about the seed.
  
              "The Charity Seed" (Never Died In Winter Yet), Sam Henry's Songs of the People 
              also in DigTrad: DIEDWNTR