The following lines are taken from . . .

. . . the Glasgow (Scotland) Examiner.  We commend them to our readers, as displaying more knowledge of the chivalry than we are apt to credit foreign journals with:

Neath a ragged Palmetto a Southern sat,

A twisting the band of his Panama hat,

And trying to lighten his mind of a load,

By humming the words to the following ode:

“Oh! For a darkey, Oh! For a whip,

Oh! For a cocktail, and Oh! For a nip;

Oh! For a shot at Old Greely and Beecher,

Oh! For a crack at a Yankee school teacher,

Oh! For a captain, and Oh! For a ship,

Oh! For a cargo of darkies each trip.”

And so he kept Ohing for he had not,

Not content with [owing] for all that he’d got.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 15, 1862, p. 2