Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1813-07-26
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From the Nafhville (Tennefee) Examiner.
A SONG,
Written BY one Of the Yolamttsrs Of tins
State-oec4jned BY the lat tsD'0n 81
sbe Legyqafa,e. -
Tuns--Iip Ri
IN Na(hviIIe town is to be found
The wildom of our nation, o,
AfIembly men underlfsnd,
Mutt own a good plantation. o;
Il makes them wife, 10 odds what fize,
II il be half An acre, O,
a party TOOL prattng fool,
A lew, Turk or Shaker, o,
May reprefent the good people OF
the ftate of Tennefee, provided they
can furniih the worthy fouls with
good JoaAM of whisky, and tickle
their ears with a promiie of light
taxes and land for nothing, while
their own minds are occupied with
plea6ng old tune, called, Three dol
lars day, three dollars a.day, three
dollars a-day, di dec.
They meet q, ten like hone1 rneo,
And hen they cali'd TO order o;
The drum did heat, out in the itrees;
They cry shzt 10 diforder, q:
They fpent the day, q, heard FAY,
To ffop al fuch in,ruhon, ..
Like gripping della, four hundred zV6ssi,
They made by tina, e,ntuhon o.
BY the powers of Poit Oak. (whoie
cloquence would have made sheridan
or Old Bailey, bluih, it would have
made the heart of an honeft man
ache, 20 have heard the long fpeeeh-
es of the lawyers, on 70 iimple an
occaGon, while the good old farmers
were doing away their time dream
ing there was no money in the treat
ury, which made the poor fouls fhake
worfe than LONG TOM did in the time
Of the earthquake But to comfort
themlelves, after their fright, they all
flung the seod old tune OF Three dol
lars a-day, &c
Applied for divorces, o:
Their tale was good UNDERWOOD,
Ii help 70 fill their psrfes, 0.
AIrho our laws. in former ciasie,
Had 10 that cafe provided o,
The mar, iAge vow. cant tell how,
Wa by thefe men derided O.
And very good reaton their hon.
ors had for 70 doing-time fpent In
foon makes poor man.
Not 70 with tn, m the time they
fpend doing nothing, helps to I'LL
their coffers.-We need not wonder
that fuch WISE men can find matter to
difpute about, 70 long as there is any
money in the treafu,y If that ~ss
20 fail, they would foon ceaf, TO Gng
the good old tune called Three dol
hrs day, &c.
O. fharne 90 lell, IL 70 befei.
some colts ran. fer aisdd'e o!
Then all the crew, eIcePl = few,
Were Calling Tor their brides o,
Oar infaat S~se, ief, 10 i's fate,
a rae was mere important o,
Than any law. they ever faw,
Or papers well affected o.
No fooner was the pleafng ttelli
gence of race to be run. commu-
nica,ed, (no, BY the crier al the door,
but by the mob out Of doors) than all
were in a buiile. II would have
done the heart of gambler good, to
have ieen 10 neat an example fet be-
fore him by the worthy repre- fen a.
tiyes of our fate. Go CT my brave
fellows. fays poor horfe racer,
(whole living had been waited) no
wonder l am poor and in mifery-
no pay did I ever receive for time
fpent in idlrnsis-- not 70 with you
You can go or, iinging the good old
tune. call'd-1hree dollars day, &c.
The fasase foe. unqualified go.
Th.t murdered our women o,
No cath TO fpend, rights 20 dsfesd,
Il all nun 60 for sleeping o.
They spend each night and think Il right,
10 flufilHe of the psso'O,
This CALLING tale, will make hem rail,
And caufe them all to caper q.