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Old Mother Seward

Old Mother Seward,
She went to the Lee-ward,
To get her dog a Union bone.
She got to Manassas,
And saw them harrass us —
Lord! how Mother Seward did groan.

Notes

"Old Mother Seward" was Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Seward. American Civil War.

From Collected Material by Lizzie Cary Daniel

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