The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-22
MODOCS IN CHICAGO.
Prepared to Startle Residents of Lake
Town With Their Latest Music.

Town With Their Latest Music.
The Modoc club has been engaged by
the Chicago committee to sing at the var
ious camp fires during the National G.. A
r. encampment next week. They will
leave for Topeka Sunday, August &C.
4:30 p. m, in a special train over the Rock
Island and arrive in Chicago at TAO Mon
day morning. They will be entertained
lexington hotei' corner of Michigan ave-
nue. and Twenty-second street They will
be in full uniform and have rendered their
services to Department Commander Mar
tin for the Grand Army parade on Tues
day. The members of the club who will
First tenors-Frank Weightman, Joe
Griley. 2. L. Wood, H E. Lyman, J. A.
Second tenors-F c. squires. R. E.
Thomas, F. A. Stevens, H. E. Snyder.
First bass F. Sherman, T. J. Ander-
Second bass-M D. Henderson. ]. D.
Rodemeyer, l. IA. Wood, s. H. Went
Musical director, NJ. c. Holman; pianist
G. E Lewis; assistant pianist, T. c. Muel-
The following rollicking song. composed
by A A. Rowley, is due to make a hit
with every one who hears 1t:
We are a band of Modocs. from the raging
KaW we came;
We're not SO awful handsome, but we got
there just the same;
And when we sing, we sing, and when
But When WI San We we war rbh thusly, why, we
neither sang nor sung.
CHORUS.
The warbling, warbling, warbling, warb-
ling Modocs from the Kaw;
The w,arbIing warbling, warbling. warb
And when we sing, we sing, and when
we sang. we sung;
But when we warbled thuSly, why, we
neither sang nor sung
We've been up on the Hudson, where
they're stuck on David Hili
And down in old Ohio, where it's all Nc
Kinley's bill;
we're down, we're down,
But in the wild and woody west we're
neither up nor down.
CHORUS.
The woody, woody. woody, woody, wild and
The woody. woody, woody. woody. wild and
woody west;
And when were up. we're up. and ahen
But in the wild and woody west, we're
neither up nor down
We've been to Cincinnati and we've been
across the Rhine;
We've been to San Francisco and we've
slipped her rosy wine;
And when we drink, we drink, and when
we drank, we drunk,
But it's so dry in Kansas we have neither
drank nor drunk
CHORUS.
Oh, sunny, sunny, sunny, sunny, sunny
oh, sunny, sunny, sunny, sunny, sunny
Kansas land;
we drank, we drunk,
But it's so dry in Kansas we have neither
drank nor drunk
We like Grand Army meetings where
were fed on Truth, you know;
In fact, we're fond of eating when our
dinner isn't crow;
And when we eat, we eat. and when we
But when they fed US army beans we
neither ate nor ct.
CHORUS.
tl.a army
The army. army. army. army, little army
And when we eat, we eat, and when we
ate, we ct,
But when they fed US army beans we
neither ate nor EFT.
made gallant fight;
He met the Spanish navy and he knocked
it out of sight;
he fought, he fit,
But when he took Manila, spaniards
neither fought nor fit.
CHORUS.
oh Dewey, Dewey, Dewey. Dewey Dewey
Oh Dewey. Dewey. Dewey. Dewey, Dewey
And When he tlessi tights. he fights. and when
But when he took Manila, spaniards
neither fought nor fit
We've seen your Court of Honor and your
lake in sweet repose:
Also your great canal, we've seen-St.
Louis hold your nose;
And when we see, we see, and when we
saw, we seen,
But the like of your skyscrapers, We have
neither saw nor seen.
CHORUS
Scraper, scraper, scraper, oh, sky scrapers
scraper, scraper. scraper. oh. sky scrapers
we have seen;
And when we see we see. and when we
saw. we seen,
But the like of your skyscrapers, we have
neither saw nor seem