The morning times., 1896-07-26

Little Pigs TAIL
For Tippecanoe and Tyler, too-Tippecanoe
And with them we'Il beat little Van. Van.
And with them we'n beat little Van.
Van is Il used up man.
OLD TIPS BROOM.
"Old Tips Broom to the tune buy a
Broom" was as follows:
Come; patriets, ee,me, and let's clare out
Let's sweep out the paror and clean the
East room;
Drive out the magician. who long has been
witchiDg,
His schemes to dissolve; let us try a new
broom;
Take a broom-old Tips broom.
Come, every true WING, and help handle
To "nulify'' subs that SO long have an
And have fat,ened themselves from the
Treasury spoilS,
VIII. be the best exercise that ever EN-
ployed US
<ADdSwiil reward us for all OF our tolls.
Take a brooin-o!d Tips broom;
Come, all ye true democrats, take old
Tips broom.
''Ye Soldiers of Freedom" sung to the
tune .'Bonaparte's Return from Rome"
concludes:
old Tip. he is riding, the fort on before.
more.
Some shouting some singing, for Harri-
son they cry,
In the great cause or freedom, all gags
We defy.
The last two stanzas OF ''Old Tippe-
canoe" 10 the tune, ''Rosin the Bow" ran:
And now that the good OF the nation
Requires that something we do,
Wen huri little Van from the station,
And elect Tippecanoe.
Again and again fill your glasses,
Bid Martin Van Buren, adleu,
Wen please ourselves and the lasses,
And vote for old Tippecanoe.
THE Farmer of North Bend seems to
have been especially indig to the soil
OF PENIS ylyania, and u number Of others
We're given local rather than national ap-
plication. Hail To the Chief Who in Tri-
uInph Advances was paraphrased into a
new national Wing song and the Ohio Wing
conv entiuu, February %, 1S4O, is de-
scribed III verse, rendered TO the tune The
Son OF AIkDomook.'
DYING GRoANS OF THE TIN PAN.
At the convention one of the far distant
delega ,ions sang the Dying Groans Of the
Tin Pan in which it was declared:
The object OF our journey was plain to
discover,
Twas 10 row Mat Van Buren way up Salt
River.
The Last Cabinet Council" to the air
There's nae Luck bout the House, was
too long to become popular. 1t began:
Sly Matty's face was overcast,
His hopes began to lower,
HIS kitchen cabinet he called,
Besides the lawful four,
And haGe them with q ScOluinE tongue
That each should truly say,
If any chance remained Tor MIN
On next election day.
The Aryans came down like the wolf
on the fold,'' was parodied into THE
Spokesman" ana the result is not half bad.
The Burial of Sir John Moore" is also
paroded into Report Of the committee
appointed by the people to invite Mr.. Van
Bur.n mao "A STATE OF Retiracy.''' The
first verse appears thus:
Not a s;gi was heard, not Il farewell groan,
Though he looked confoJndedlyf Hurried;
No Dayriod's breast was heard To moan,
AS from the White House he hurried.
He streaSe 1 iG clt darby, at dead or night,
The way with his grabblers feeling,
A mi ie seemed, oy the glare otiantern light,
Like rogue Just caught a sheep stealing.
The Hero Plowman," to the tune yam
kee Doodle" began:
The hero plowman of North Bend,
According to my notion,
Who did our cabins long defend.
Is worthy OF promotion
| Come one, come all. the sportsmen clan,
Who jump at Matty's orders;
| We'll clear his kitchen to man
| And boost them from our Lofders.
| To the ARA Health Let Us Drink to the
| Hero and Sage the melody of ''Tippc-
| canoe began:
The spoIismen are fretful and gloomy as
| night,
Their denmark is rotten about.
| The party's perplexed and in horrible plight
/ For Mltty they know mnSt ont.
! Our flag like the sign OF the Roman, wcen
Will lead us to eiory-aDd who
| Wouldn't stick to that nag while stars to
The flag of Old TippecaDoe.
\ >IaBrt IN the song '-Stoalh Brave Sol
| diers Be Forgot" almost establishes pre-
cedent for socklcss Jerry Simpson:
| No ruffIed shirt, -gsilken hose,
No airs does Tip display,
| But like the ''pith of; worth" he goes
In homespun "hoddin-gre
Upon his board there ne'er appeared
| The brightly sparkling wine,
Bat plain 'ha nj cider such as cheered
In days of Old Lang syne.
YOUNG LoCHINvAR PAROD1ED.
Young -Lochinvar' was paroded into
Cleaning the kitchen and White House."
an inaug uration day song for March 4,
1S41.
Altogether sixty-niue campaign, songs Of
the log cabin and hard cider contest have
been preserved in book form. Asa means Of
aiding locomo.ion toward the White House
they were eninently successful, but the un-
| fortunate death of Harrison few days
| after his inaug uratiou seems to have tenn
porarily brought tile practice into disuse.
| A number of songs intended to ofurther the
Presidential ambitious Of Henry Clay were
written, but were alike unsuccessful and
transitory. II was not until the nomina-
ton OF Horace Greeley in 1879 as the
candidate OF the Liberal Democrats against
Gen. Grant that another determined effort
was made to sing man into the Executive
Mansion. Amos j Cummings, now a men,
ber OF Congress from New York, compiled
the Greeley Campaign songster," vol
ume OF "a pages.
The opening contribution Is from George
Alfred Townsend and is entitled .'The
| Last Rebel Yell" Included in the colec-
tion are .'Hurrah f0rthe Old Tree Chopper"
THAT Old White Hat and Coat. ."sThe
Axman-of eCAHppaqua." '.Greeicy's Old
| White Coat" THE White Chapeau." to
| the airA swearing OF the Green" .'Grans
and Greeley" Garry the New to .Lysses,"
and "From Cincinnati to the White House."
but all OF the latter-day and supposedly
| artistic productions are stupid and com
f! monplace when compared with the fresh
| ness and vigor OF the stirring melodies
| which coupled the named OF '.Tippecanoe
| and Tyler, tOO."
Those who participated In the stirring
! canvass OF $40 came 70 the trout a. vocal
| isis, but In . leBsr degree, when Fro
mont and Freedom" was the battle cxy OF