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Absolute knowledge I really have none,
But a secret informant’s stenographer’s son
Overheard a policeman, while walking his beat,
Remark to a laborer crossing the street
That certain unspecified Portuguese Jews
Had wind of a sailor in Newport News,
Who had learned while abroad (from an undisclosed source)
That Sarah Palin’s a space alien riding a horse
The facts are unclear (to be candid and terse),
The rumors soon may be better or worse
By some predictable move to demean
The lamestream media is turning green
To settle the scam, or again maybe not,
That’s the sum of the latest reports that I’ve got.
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Way Back in the 50s my grandfather taught me a poem which he sang in a Minstrel Show:
Absolute knowledge i have none
But my aunts brothers sisters son
Met a Policemen on his beat
said to a laborer in the street that
he had received a letter just last week
Written in the finest Greek
From a Chinese coolie in Timbuktu
Who said the Ni**ers in Cuba knew of a
colored man in a texas town
who got it straight from a circus clown that a
Man from the klondike got the news from a gang of south american Jews
That a man from Borneo heard from a man who claimed to know
of a swell female societies rake
whose mother-in-law will undertake to prove
that her seventh husbands sisters niece
has stated in a printed piece
that she has a son who has a friend
who knows when this war is going to end.
The poem was authored during the first world war
Ed you could at least have given credit to the bigots during the first world war or my grandfather LOL
Thanks for posting the original version and letting me know its origin. I had no idea where it came from. I originally picked it up in much different form from a CIA analyst in the late 1980s. I’ve revised it and used it several times since, but now that I know its original origin and intent I doubt I’ll use it again.