Subject: Lyr Add: King Andrew (Campaign of 1832)
From:
chico
Date: 29 Jul 05 - 06:04 AM
Sheet music available at the Levy Collection
^^ AIR -- 'Dame Durden'
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King Andrew had five trusty squires whom he held his bid[ing] to do
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He also had three pilot fish to give the sharks their cue
There was Lou, and Ben, and Lev, and Bill, and Roger of Tawney hue,
And Blair the Book, and Kendal chief cook, and Isaac surnamed the True
And Blair push'd Lewis and Ben touch'd Billy and Ike jogg'd Levi
And Cass touched Amos and Roger of Tawny Hue
Now was this not a medley crew as ever a mortal knew?
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Now was this not a medley crew as ever a mortal knew?
King Andrew had an itching palm to finger the nation's cash
Most of 'em thought 'twas just the thing, but some, it would be rash
He ask'd Lou, and Ben, &C
The General took his cook's advice, and hurried away the Rhino
But where is went, aye, there's the rub I'm sure neither you nor I know
For there's Lou, and Ben &c
['As sung at the Salem Whig Festival, August 1834.' Boston: Published by SH Parker near Washington Street. Roger B. Taney (Sec of the Treasury, later Supreme Court Chief Justice), Levi Woodbury (Secretary of the Navy), Amos Kendall (Auditor of the Treasury), Francis Blair (editor of the Washington Globe, the recognized organ of the Jackson party) were all members of Jackson's "Kitchen Cabinet". Lewis Cass was Secretary of War and later nominee for President in 1848.]
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