Like a young Colt the country was now growing fast Passanger trains in the East were traveling a hundred miles an hour People in the country could buy clothes by mail order And get 'em back within two weeks After twenty years or more the South was still mendin' its wounds from a Civil War But with all the country's problems the Union was solid Great American novelists and poets were comin' into own People were expressin' their love for America in song and poem And in South Carolina a high-toned southern gentleman Expressed his love and admiration for him President James A Garfield in such a way
