Stephen Foster Poems - Poems about Stephen Foster

...Wash your hands (to the tune of camp town races by Stephen Foster) Some guy eats a bloody bat do dah do dah All I say is "fancy that" all the do dah day keep your distance, give me space do ......Read the rest...

...I happened to hear a cover song on the radio the other day, by some band the couldn’t write a hit, or their instruments manage to play. My first thought was to just shake my head, and wish they ......Read the rest...

...There was a fiddler, back in eighty-three, a young fellow who called himself Monty, wasn’t much of a worker, that is no lie, but oh, how fast his fingers could fly… He came from the east, most ......Read the rest...

...If you look at Stephen Foster, who wrote songs for the minstrel shows, you wouldn’t expect a genius that all of the world would know. He was another bookkeeper for a steamship company, until he......Read the rest...

...II. In the week that followed that cold, hard scene, Reno settled in and got down to work, he did tie up loose ends for the estate, but mostly in the saloons did lurk. Listening hard for any r......Read the rest...

...I can't believe that he could claim A poem by Edgar Allan Poe, Titled as is, but with his name! That is plagiarism, we know! Wallace Stevens, Stephen Foster, Thomas Moore, Sir Philip Sidney, ......Read the rest...

...“Go west young man”, the neighbors said; but they wisely stayed at home. From pianoforte to pianoforte, saloon to saloon, town to town I roam. Surrounded by Phillistines, “soiled doves”, cowpokes, an......Read the rest...