"The Abolition Show"

They had grim border rurrians, I'll bring to your mind
And they've plenty more left of the very same kind
They drank from a flask and played cards on the way
And the children looked on on this Seventeenth day
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They had Ohio yankees of Western Reserve
Who live upon cheese ginger cake and preserve
Abolition's their doctrine their prop and their staff
And they'll fight for a sixpence an hour and a half
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Now was it not kind in these good simple clowns
To amuse all the children in both of our towns
To shut up their work shops and spend all their money
To black up their faces, get tight, and be funny
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They called it a council of freemen you know
But I told you before 'twas a great baby show
For when they had met they had nothing to say
But poor bleeding kandas and ten cents a day
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