Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1913 — “On the Banks of the Wabash.” [ARTICLE]

“On the Banks of the Wabash.”

Since the last legislature, in its wisdom, compelled us to accept “On the Banks of the Wabash” as the official song, it will be interesting to observe that some Hoosier poet, evidently an inhabitant of the Wabash valley, has done his best to rOpopularize this familiar ballad Dy contributing an up-to-date verse and chorus to the song, which reads as follows: Round my Indiana home the waves are creeping And the water’s rising to the second floor; Through the orchard grove the rampant flood is sweeping; Father’s cruising southward on the kitchen door. And the schoolhouse where I learned to dictate fiction Floated by an hour ago upon the —tide, Would I had the Tarkington command of diction To depict the raging Wabash ocean wide. CHORUS. Oh, the flood is high tonight along the Wabash. And the water’s killed the corn and wheat and hay; Tlirough the sycamores the cattle flocks are floating, On the banks of the Wabash far away.,