The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky / To the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County.

by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

With its tales of peace and plenty,

With its tales of Indian warfare,

With its nights and days of watching,

With the camp-fires all a-gleaming,

And the white man’s deadly peril,

I should answer, I should tell you,

’Tis the city of Lancaster,

In the county we call Garrard,

In the State of old Kentucky,

In America, the nation