<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408090" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Grandmother Told Me So</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The declaration has been spoken,<br>For Grandmother told me so.<br>The darkeys have got their fetlocks broken,<br>For Grandmother told me so.<br>Oh, won't they have a lot of iron on hand!<br>And when the news travels,<br>Oh, won't it be grand!<br>'Twill sweep like a sugarcane over the land,<br>For Grandmother told me so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">American Eagle! hysterical bird!<br>Oh, flap your wing and crow!<br>The slaves are embellished--yes, that's the word,<br>For Grandmother told me so!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There's curious times in that ur section,<br>For Grandmother told me so.<br>They think they will have a resurrection,<br>For Grandmother told me so.<br>The penholders raving like persons insane --<br>The darkeys in exodus, raising cane,<br>And singing like martingales after a rain,<br>For Grandmother told me so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But President Abe forgot Kentucky,<br>For Grandmother told me so.<br>And Geneses, too -- and that's unlucky,<br>For Grandmother told me so.<br>Malicious champagne will be open'd in vain,<br>Until we shall break the last ox-yoke and chain --<br>Till through the Benighted States freedom shall reign,<br>For Grandmother told me so.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Clay+Work">Henry Clay Work</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408090" data-title="Grandmother Told Me So de Henry Clay Work" data-description="The declaration has been spoken, For Grandmother told me so. The darkeys have got their fetlocks broken, For Grandmother told me so. Oh, won't they have a lot of iron on hand! And when the news travels, Oh, won't it be grand! 'Twill sweep like a s..."></div> </div> </div>

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