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(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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