"Now all good fellows listen, and a story I will tell
Of a mighty clever gentleman who lives extremely well
In the Western part of Arkansas. close to the Indian line;
Where he gets drunk once a week on Whiskey and immediately sobers
himself up completely on the very best of wine,
A fine Arkansas gentleman
Close to the Choctaw line!

This fine Arkansas gentleman has a mighty fine estate,
Of five or six thousand acres or more of land, that will be worth a great
deal some day or other, if he don't kill himself too soon, and will
only consent to wait;
And four or five dozen Negroes that would rather work than not;
And such quantities of horses, and cattle, and pigs, and poultry, that he
never pretends to know how much he has got;

This fine Arkansas gentleman makes several hundred bales,
Unless from drought or worm. or a bad stand, or some other damned
contingency, his crop is short and fails;
And when it's picked and ginned and balked, he puts it on a boat,
And gets aboard himself likewise, and charters the bar, and has a devil
of a spree, while down to New Orleans he and his cotton float.
This fine Arkansas gentleman
Close to the Choctaw line."  by Albert Pike