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Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 17, July 23, 1870

GRANT'S BLACKBIRD PIE.

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AIR: SING A SONG O' SIXPENCE.

Sing about a Treaty Got up to supply Half a million Black birds For the Union Pie. When the fact was published, Swindlers at Sing Sing Said the Author's one of us-- Let us call him King. FISH was at the Treasury Clamoring for the money, GRANT was in the "Blue-room" Looking blithe and sunny, MORBILL, in the Senate, Brought things to a close-- GRANT'S half million Black birds Vanished with the noes.

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