New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-06-26

Colonel Albert Pixies "Fine Arkansas
Gentleman which quarter of q century
ago was sgreat favorite, and was often
sung at Wellington dinner parties, has not
been referred to very often of late years.
Here it is aain:
Now, all pod fellows, listen, and story
will tell,
OF mighy clever gentleman, who lives
extremlyvell,
In the westrn part of Arkansas, close to the
Indian lin,
| Where he CTS drunk once week on whisky,
and Immediately sobers himself COM
pletely oLthe very best of wine;
A fine Ekansas gentleman,
Close hthe Choctaw line.
This fine Akansss gentleman has mighty
fine estat,
Of five or tx thousand acres or more of
land, thstwill be worth great deal some
day Or taer, if he don't kill himself too
sooD, ant will only condescend to wait;
| And four or five hundred negroes that
would rther work than not,
And such quantities of horses, and cattle,
and pig, and other poultry, that he never
pretend to know how many he has got;
This fie Arkansas gentleman,
Close , the Choctaw line.
This fine Arkansas gentleman has built a
splendidhouse
On the ege of a big prairie, extremely
well populated with deer, ana hares, and
grouse;
And when he wants to feast his friends he
has nothing more to do
Than to cave the pot-lid off, and the de.
Gently hhaved7birds fly straight into the
pot, knowing he'll shoot 'em if they don't,
and he hs q splendid stew,
This fac Arkansas ge ntIeman,
Close the Choctaw line!
This fine Ekansas gentleman makes several
hundredbales,
; Unless from Grouth, or worm, a bad stand,
or some other contingency, his crop is
short, fails;
And wheI it's picked, and ginned, and
bailed, b puts il in q boat,
And gett aboard himself likewise, and
charters the bar, and has a devil of s.
spree, vile down to New Orleans he and
his cottp float,
This ine Arkansas gentleman,
Close o the Choctaw line!
And whenhe gets to New Orleans he sacks
clothig store,
And puts lp at the City Hotel, the ST. Louis,
the st. iharles, the Verandah, and all the
other hkels III the city, il he succeeds in
QnOlnS ny more;
Then he DAVIS upon his merchant, and goes
about aid treats
Every nh from Kentucky, and Arkansas,
and ALBANIA, and Virginia, and the
Choctavnation, and every other vagabond
he meet!
This fhe Arkansas gentleman,
Close % the Choctaw line!
The last tine he was down there, when he
thoughtof going back,
After staying about fifteen years, or less, he
discovered that by lending and by spend
ing. andbeing prey in general to gam.
blers, hCkmen, lOafers, brokers, hosiers,
tailOrs, servants, and many other indi.
viduals, white and black,
He'd distributed his assets, and got rid of
all his means,
And had nothing left to show for them, bar.
ring two or three headaches, an invincible
thirst, md an extremely general and pro-
miscuoB acquaintance in the aforesaid
New Dreams:
This tne Arkansas Gentleman,
Close 20 the Choctaw line.
Now, hov this gentleman got home is
neither lere nor there,
But I've been credibly informed that he
swore worse than forty-seven pirates, and
iercely .ombed his hair;
And afterhe got safely home they say he
took an bath
That he'e never bet cent again at any
game 0 cards, and, moreover, for want
of deceit advisers, he foreswore whisky
and faro both;
This fine Arkansas gentleman,
Close 20 the ChoctaW line.
This fine Arkansas gentleman went fierce
for Pierre and King,
And so cane On to Washington to get nice
tat otiie, or some other comfortable
thing;
But. like lin from Jerusalem that went to
Jericho
He fell among thieves again, and could not
win bit whether he coppered or not, so
his cashwas bound TO go;
This fine Arkansas gentleman,
Close o the Choctaw line!
So when his moneys all were gone, he took
unto hisbed,
And DR.. Ryburn physicked him, and the
chambemaid, who had great affection
for him, with her arm held up his head
And all hisfriends came weeping round, and
bidding MIN adieu.
And two O. three dozen preachers, whom he
didn't know at all. and didn't care if he
didn't, came praying for him, too;
This fle Arkansas gentleman,
Close the Choctaw line
They closed his eyes and spread him out all
ready for the tomb,
And mercy to console themselves they OPP
ened the biggest kind Of game of faro
right there in his own room;
But whenhe heard the checks he flung the
linen offhis face, %
And sung cut, just precisely as he used to do
when he was alive. ''Prindle, don't turn,
hold on I go twenty on the king, and
copper On the ace!"
This fine Arkansas gentleman,
Close IN the Chncktaw line