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Stephen Foster Poems - Poems about Stephen Foster


Stephen Foster Brings
...The Field's From Star Star's Lead! Song's Stephen Foster, .... Brings!......

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Categories: stephen foster, appreciation,
Form: Ballad
Wash Your Hands
...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 ......

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Categories: stephen foster, 7th grade, hope, humorous,
Form: Lyric



In Praise of Cover Songs
...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 ......

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Categories: stephen foster, appreciation, culture, encouraging, history,
Form: Rhyme
The Fiddler's Tune, Part I
...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 ......

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Categories: stephen foster, death, history, jealousy, loss,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Who Will Be Great - Ii
...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......

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Categories: stephen foster, books, literature, music, people,
Form: Rhyme



The Gun-Hand's Revenge, Part Ii
...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......

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Categories: stephen foster, adventure, history, hurt, judgement,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Plagiarism At the Soup
...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, ......

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Categories: stephen foster, poems, poets,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Piano Player In Rotgut's Saloon
...“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......

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Categories: stephen foster, addiction, america, humorous, music,
Form: Couplet

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