Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
964
AUTHOR:
James Hilary Mulligan (18441916)
QUOTATION:
The song birds are the sweetest In Kentucky; The thoroughbreds are fleetest In Kentucky; Mountains tower proudest, Thunder peals the loudest, The landscape is the grandest And politicsthe damnedest In Kentucky.
ATTRIBUTION:
JAMES H. MULLIGAN, In Kentucky, stanza 7.John W. Townsend, In Kentucky and its Author, Jim Mulligan, pp. 89 (1935).