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Kaira
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Kaira asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 6 years ago

Can someone tell me the title for this rhyme?

NO, this is not for school, but I came across this online and wanted to know the title.

Of all the damsels on the green

On mountain or in valley

A lass so luscious ne'er was seen

As Monticellian Sally

Yankee Doodle, who's the noodle

What wife were half so handy

To breed a flock of slaves for stock

A blackamoor's the dandy

Search every town and city through

Search market, street, and alley

No dame at dusk shall meet your view

As yielding as my Sally

(Yankee Doodle, etc.)

When press'd with loads of state affairs

I seek to sport and dally

The sweetest solace of my cares

Is in the lap of Sally

(Yankee Doodle, etc.)

Let Yankee parsons preach their worst

Let Tory Wittling's rally

You men of morals! and be curst

You would snap like sharks for Sally

She's black you tell me-grant she be-

Must color always tally?

Black is love's proper hue for me

And white's the hue for Sally

What though she by the glands secretes

Must I stand shil-I shall-I

Tucked up between a pair of sheets

There's no perfume like Sally

You call her slave-and pray were slaves

Made only for the galley?

Try for yourselves, ye witless knaves

Take each to bed your Sally

Yankee Doodle, who's the noodle

Wine's vapid, tope me brandy

For I still find to breed my kind

A *****-wench the dandy

The sad thing is, I memorized the song and I forgot the title, but now the website I got the rhyme from is blocked by the school filter.

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    6 years ago
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    It's called "A Song Supposed to Have Been Written by the Sage of Monticello." It was a satirical song, alleged (satirically) to have been written by Thomas Jefferson, but apparently written by Joseph Dennie, and published in Dennie's anti-Jefferson political magazine "The Port Folio." The magazine also published an anonymous anti-Jefferson poem actually written by future president John Quincy Adams.

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