Jake Dale, o' the "Lucky George"?
You must 'a' been raised in the East, my son,
If you never clapped ears to the yarn that's spun
Of Jakey Dale an' the race he won
In the year o' the big ice gorge.
Come March in the Spring o' '81,
An' the river broke at Pierre
An' come rantin' down on the clean rampage.
She marked 36 on the Yankton gauge,
Which I reckon you know is some of a stage,