Weekly Trinity journal., 1867-06-22
Breitmann in the South,
PART DE EoORSf.

FooRsr.
Der Sheneral Sherman hots oop on his coorse
lie shtops at de Cross road und reing in his horse:
Deres a ford on der rifer dis day We moost dake
VI else de grand army in bieces shall preak"
" hen shoost as dis wordt from his lips gone
Der coomed young orterly gaopin' fast,
VINO cry NIT amaZemendt '0h, Shen'ral-goot Lord
Dat hummer, Der Breitmann, ish holdin' de ford!
Der shen'ral he ootered no hymn and no PSALM
But opened his lips und he priefy say "d-n
To get it dose men would set hell in shiver;
But now that they hold it, ride quick to their aid
Ho, Sickles! move promptly send down a brigade! J..
Dat Dootchman moost work mighdy veil nit de sword
If againsd whole army he hold to de ford"
But for Bremann help eoomed shoost liddle too late;
So on to die Bummers die repels COON down.
Heinrich Won Schinckensten's tead in de road,
Dieterich Hinkelbeins fiat a toad
Und Sepperi1Tyrolerash pc @ 1eior i,a, y, wordt
Istch't of Innspruck is drilled troo de hair,
Elmer Boblineen-he doc wash dere-
Karti of Karsruhs shot de fence
(IIis horse o'eroadet nit toorkies und hens):
Und dough he like a coorsed mad cannibal fought
Yet der Bretmann, der copain der hero wash caught
Und de asht dngs saw, he wash tied nit a cord
For de repes hat goppled him oop at de ford.
Dey shtripped of his goat und skyugled his poots,
Dey dresshd him NIT rags of a repe recruits.
Bu2von odt weller shmiled crmly and pet
Dat Breitmann would pc pad egg for dem yet.
He has more on his pipe as dem vellers allows.f
hash yet handt und das spiel nie aus:
Deyl II find dat dey dook in der teufel to board
De day dey pooled Breitmann well ofer de ford
In de Bowery each bier house NIT Grape oopdone,
When dey readt in de bapers dat Breitmann gone
Und the Dootch all troonk oopon lager und vein,
At de crate Trauerfest OF de Toorner veren.
Dere loeiaen nat tceiaeit, peobes did dnk
Dat shermans crate Bretmann could trink
Une in William shtreedt veepin und van wash hoord,
Pecause der Hans Breitmann wash lost at de ford.
II, dulce jubilo now We all sings.
A wavin' de Planners like avery dings,
De preeze troo de bine drees is cooler und salt,
Und der henral is loosty venefer We halt,
Lustig und merry he shmelis at te preeze,
Ltstg ind hcer he looks roo de drees,
Lnstg ,ttd heiter ash veil he may pc,
For Sherman lasht has marched down to de sea.
Deres CRY from de guardt-deres clotter und ramp-
When dat terry orterly rides troo de camp
Who report the ford Dere is droples und awe
In de face Of de youf apout Something's he saw
IND he shpeak in Frantzsch like he alays do" Look!
Srcre GeuI-ea1tieu!-dere ish Breitnann his slpook!
lie is coming dis vayi Non de garce can it pc
Dat de shpooks OF de tead COON down to de sea ~
Und looks und sees, und we dremples nit tread,
For rsin' all shwart de efening red
Was Johannes-der Breitmann-der aoar es bel GoH!
Coon ridn' to oosward rite shraght to de shpot;
All mouse-still soo-yet nit oop-choompin hearts,
For he look sloost pig de shiaut of de Ilartz
Und hear de sout Dentschers say, ve-Morie!
Braise Gott all goot shpirts py landt und py arg
Boot Itzig of Frankfort he liflt oop his nose
Und benark dat der shpook had been sangn his Clothes
For he seemed like "A GeneTalssimus drest
In vlamiu coadt und MAGNIFICENT vest;
Six bistols beschlagen nit sber he wore,
Und gold-mounted swordt like an Kaisar he bore.
Und dinks dat der ghosdt-or tttefer he pc
Most hafe proken SOON panks ON his way to de sea.
" Id is he-d iett noc!-he lfes y all say, re
" Der Bremann Oldt Breitmann! Hans Breitman! Hey7
Und rush to un-arm him. md still more we find
Dat verefer he'd peeu he'd left ioding behind,
IL boe of his poots dere vas crammed;
Nit creenpacks stooffn all de haversack jamIned;
In his pockets cold dollars were shnglin DER dUouj
Nit two doozen votches and four dozen -hpoons;
Und two silver dei- pods for maxim his dea,
Der ghosdt hate pring nit him en- route to de
Nit good sweed bodadoes und doorkies und rice
We makes him sooper Of eferydings nice.
Und de bummers hoont roundt about ale ,oie cin,
Dilt dey find blandschon init parrels of wcin Zruck
Den twas " Here to you, Breitmann AT &caped-Lis
Vot teufes you makes since dis fourteen nights week
Und We holds Won shtupendous und derrible shpree
For choy dat der Breitmaun has got to de
But in ain did We ashk der Breitmann had peen
yot he did-vot he bass troo-or vot he might seen,
We're he kits his vine horse who gate him dem woons
Und how Broidence plessed him nit pods und pouns
For to all of dem gueerics he only replies:
6 II you detis me no questions Iastk you no lieS.'
So dwas CLEAR dat derrible myshdry moost pc
We're he kits all dat poonder he prings to de
Dcrc sh bapers in Richmond dells derribIe lies
How Sherman's grand armees hae raised der sioples
Und readt it in brindt dat der sheneral Grant
Say de bummers hae only shoost dake rat dcy raat.
But tits whispered dat While reiolfer'll 60 round
Der Breitmann will neer a peggn' be found.
Or shtarvin us brs sner-by doonderl-not hei
While der teuiel could helb him to get to de sea!
*LAwISE-Dis is nfaIantch doompes down on bee
ples hets in Sciwitzerland und preaks dings
ton de pipe shtick Sometimes dey say de corn.
g Sic hat mir etwas auf dem Rohr"
Die Furit ms Heu. ron A. f. Z. Langbeia.
+Weineu na tveinen. Dis means in English winng un
whining-ven peoples drinks und grys Dis is pun
e. Ale CUTE Geier IoJen den Hern beoples
in shermany when dey shpooks Den de spooks goe
afy and makes drouples for eferypody obdts