Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land

by Charles Godfrey Leland

Hard tack and cheese, good-bye!

I seek my native soil,

For soft-shell crabs I sigh,

And oysters on the broil;

Hard tack and cheese, good-bye!

Unto the canvas-back

Myself I will apply,

And hickory nuts I’ll crack;

Of chinquapins no lack;

Hard tack and cheese, good-bye!