Plu-ri-bus-tah: A Song That's-by-no-author. A Deed Without a NameLivermore & Rudd, 1856 - 264 sayfa Comic history of the United States, written in the style of Longfellow's Hiawatha. |
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310 BROADWAY Almighty dollar arms babies battle Blackamoor Bowery breeches broadcloth Broadway Browne Buy this song Cheered city of Manhattan clam-boat cognomen conquer Crystal Palace Cuffee Cuffee's Doesticks Drive him westward Dunga euchre father fear female fight fording rivers Free-love games of pasteboard gentle Liberty glorious Goddess hear ye hero homeward idol Indians Injun Jersey Johnny Taurus knew lady land of Pluri-bus-tah Learned leave line of Mah-sun-dic-sun lion lived LIVERMORE & RUDD maiden mansion master Matsell Meerschaum Mermaid Merrakah mighty Miss Liberty Mister Jupiter modern Yankee morning mother mountain Murphy Mysteries of Udolpho mytie nation ocean Peace pocket policemen Punga Railroad sable Cuffee sea-shore sisters Sketch song of Hiawatha Southern rice-fields spirit stood tell Thence he saw Thomas Hyer Thrift toiled took Udolpho Uncle Vengeance whisky wide-spread country wife wigwams woodshed worshiped Yankee fable Yengah Yunga-Merrakah Yunga-Merrakah the mourner
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