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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.
1 Answer
- ?Lv 66 years agoFavorite Answer
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.