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   Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.
 
 
NUMBER:964
AUTHOR:James Hilary Mulligan (1844–1916)
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 politics—the damnedest
            In Kentucky.
ATTRIBUTION:JAMES H. MULLIGAN, “In Kentucky,” stanza 7.—John W. Townsend, “In Kentucky” and its Author, “Jim” Mulligan, pp. 8–9 (1935).
SUBJECTS:Kentucky
 
 
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