Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-07-27
fHg UNION tYa AMERICAs.


Colonel Albert Pixies "Fine Arkansas Gentle
man." which quarter OF century ago was grea
favorite, and was often sung at washington dinne
parties has not been referred to very often of lat
years. Here il is again;
Now. all good fellows listen, and a story will tel
Ola mighty clever gentleman, who lives extremei!
well,
In the western part Of ArkaDsas, close TO the In
Where he pets drunk once a week on whisky
and Immediately sobers himself completely OF
the very best Of wine;
fine Arkansas gentleman,
Close to the Cboctaw line.
This fine Arkansas gentleman has mighty fine
OF five or six thousand acres or more Of land that
will be worth good deal some day or other,
If he don't Kill himself too soon, and will only
And four or five hundred negroes that would rath-
er work than not,
And such quantities Of CATTLE and horses and pigs,
and other poultry, that he never pretends TO
know how many he has got;
This fine Arkansas gentleman,
Close to the Choctaw line.
This fine Arkansas gentleman has built splendid
On the edge of prairie, extremely well populated
with deers, and hares, and grouse; l. H. .o.
And when he wants to feast his friends ne mas
nothing more TO do
lean to leave the pot-Hd off, and the decently be-
hayed fowls fly straight into the pot, knowing
splendid stew,
This fine Arkansas gentleman,
Close to the ChOctaw line.
bred bales,
Unless from drought, or worm, bad stand, or
some other contingency, his crop is short or
fails:
And when it's picked. and ginned, and baled, he
puts il in boat
And gets aboard himself likewise, and charters the
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New Orleans he and his cotton float,
This fine Arkansas gentleman,
Close to the ChoctaW line.
and when he gets to New Orleans he sacks cloth
And puts up at the City Hotel, the st. Louis, the
st. Charles, the Versnda, and all the other no.
tells in the city, if be succeeds in finding any
Then he draws upon bis merchant, and goes about
and treats
Every man from Kentucky, and Arkansas, and Al
ALBANIA, and Virginia, and the Choctaw Nation,
and every other vsgabond he meets!
This fine Arkansas gentleman,
Close to the Choctaw line.
The last time he was down there, when he thought
Of going back,
After staying about fifteen years or less he dscov-
cred that by lending, and by spending, and be-
ing prey in general to gamblers, hackmen,
loafers, brokers, hostlers tailors, servants, and
many other individuals, white and black,
He'd distributed al his assets, and got rid of all
his means,
And has nothing left to show for them barring two
or three headaches, an invincible thirst and an
extremely general and promscuous acquaint-
snce IN the aforesaid New Orleans,
This hne Arkansas gentleman,
Close to the ChOctaw line.
Now, how this gentleman got homo is neither here
nor there,
But I've been credibIy informed that he swore
than md 6erraly
cOmbed his hair;
And after he got safely home, they say he took an
oath
That he'd never bet cent again OF any game of
cards, and moreover, for want of decent adj
vistrs, he forswOre whisky and faro both;
This fine Arkansas gentleman,
Close to the Choctaw line.
This fine Arkansas gentleman went fierce for Pierce
and King,
And so came on to Washington to get a good fat
Office, or some other comfortable thing:
But like him from Jerusalem that went TO Jericho
He fell among thieves again, and could not win /
bet whether he coppered or not, and so his
This fine Arkansas gentleman,
Close TO the Choctaw line.
So when his moneys all were gone, he took unto !!
his bed,
And DR.. Reyburn physicked him, and the cham
berInaid, who had great affection for him.
with her arm held up his head;
And all his friends came weeping round and bid
ding him adieu,
And two or three dozen preachers, whom he didn't I
know at all, and didn't care if he didn't,
came praying for him, too;
This fine Arkansas gentleman
Close to the Choctaw line!
They closed his eyes and spread him out all ready
for the tomb
And merely to console themselves they opened the
biggest kid of game of faro right there in
his own rom;
A,,1 he o7,o I
off his face,
And sung out, just precisely he used to do when
he was alive, Handle, don't turn hold on! I
I go twenty on the king, and copper on the
ace!p
This fins Arkansas gentleman,
Close tothe Choctaw line!