TAMMANY

(Gus Edwards & Vincent Bryan)



Hiawatha was an Indian,

So was Navajo,

Paleface organ-grinders killed them

Many moons ago;

But there is a band of Indians

That will never die,

When they're at the Indian Club

This is their battle cry:



cho: Tammany, Tammany

Big Chief sits in his tepee

Cheering braves to victory,

Tammany, Tammany

Swamp 'em swamp 'em

Get me wampum

Tammany

On the island of Manhattan

By the bitter sea,

Lived this tribe of noble Red Men,

Tribe of Tammany,

From the Totem of the Greenlight

Wampum they would bring,

When their big Chief Man Behind,

Would pass the pipe and sing:





Paleface preacher, "Red Light Finder,"

To Manhattan came,

He was very old but he played

Leap-frog just the same,

He said he would run Manhattan

Like a Sunday school,

Made the village twice as bad

As under Tammany rule,



Paleface Band of Pirates called

"Reformers" made a fight,

Helped old "Red Light Finder" put the

Tam'my braves to flight;

Tammany came back and put this

Pirate band to rout,

Found the village treasure gone

"Reformers" cleaned it out,



Note: Reverend Parkhurst, known as the "Red Light Finder" led the

political battle to oust Tammany rule of New York politics.

After some much-publicized discoveries and closings of

houses of ill-repute in New Yorks "Tenderloin" district,

Rev. Parkhurst was accused (some say framed) of dipping into

the fleshpots himself. RG

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