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HIGH BRIDGE OVER KENTUCKY RIVER K13
IN KENTUCKY
1. The moonlight falls the softest,
In Kentucky.
The summer days come oftest,
In Kentucky.
Friendship is the strongest,
Love's light glows the longest,
Yet, wrong is always wrongest,
In Kentucky.
2. Life's burdens bear the lightest,
In Kentucky.
The home fires burn the brightest,
In Kentucky.
Nhile players are the keenest,
Cards come out the meanest,
The pocket empties cleanest,
In Kentucky.
3. The sun shines ever brightest,
In Kentucky.
The breezes whisper lightest,
In Kentucky.
Plain girls are the fewest,
Their little hearts are truest,
Maidens' eyes the bluest,
In Kentucky.
4. Orators are the grandest,
In Kentucky.
Officials are the blandest,
In Kentucky.
Boys are alI the fliest,
Danger ever nighest,
Taxes are the highest,
In Kentucky.
5. The blue grass waves the bluest,
In Kentucky.
Yet, bluebloods are the fewest (?),
In Kentucky.
Moonshine is the clearest,
By no means the dearest,
And yet, it acts the queerest,
In Kentucky.
6. The dove notes are the saddest,
In Kentucky.
The streams dance on the gladdest
In Kentucky.
Hip pockets are the thickest,
Pistol hands the slickest,
The cylinder turns quickest,
In Kentucky.
7. The song birds are the sweetest,
In Kentucky.
The thoroughbreds are fleetest,
In Kentucky.
Mountains tower proudest,
Thunder peais the loudest,
The landscape is the grandest,
And politics-the damndest,
In Kentucky.
-James H. Mulligan.
KENTUCKY STATE CAPITOL
AT FRANKFORT
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