State Folk Song

Famous quotes containing the words state, folk and/or song:

    “Anything goes in Wichita. Leave your revolvers at police headquarters and get a check.”
    —For the State of Kansas, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “An’ when the earth’s as cauld’s the mune
    An’ a’ its folk are lang syne deid,
    On coontless stars the Babe maun cry
    An’ the Crucified maun bleed.”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)

    “And the song she was singing ever since
    In my ear sounds on:—
    “Stay at home, pretty bees, fly not hence!
    Mistress Mary is dead and gone!””
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)