Title: "Little Sod Shanty on the Plains" Sheet Music

Description: 

Sheet music for "The Little Sod Shanty on the Plains," a song written for the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition. Cover includes images of a shanty and of the Nebraska State Building on Bluff Tract. Text, including lyrics, reads as follows: "Dedicated to
THE FRATERNAL UNION OF AMERICA F. F. ROOSE, Supreme President, Omaha, Neb. THE SOD SHANDY: A Trans-Mississippi Souvenir.
 NEBRASKA BUILDING, TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION, 1898.

Published by Morte Parsons, 1810 St. Mary's Avenue, Omaha, Neb.


THE LITTLE SOD SHANTY ON THE PLAINS.

A TRANS-MISSISSIPPI SONG.

Words and Music by MORTE PARSONS.

Copyrighted 1898.

Far away out west, upon Nebraska's prairies,
We came nigh thirty happy years ago;
Since then my wife and I have been a toiling
From morn til night in summer and in snow.

We've not been very stylish or progressive,
Nor travelled much to spend our scanty gains;
We have labored hard, yet lived in health and plenty
In our little old shanty on the plains.

You may sing of love in bardic story, olden,
Or the meadow's breath, sweet scented with the rains,
But you ne'er can sweep the mem'ries sweet and golden,
From the little old sod shanty on the plains.

But...... now the times have changed out in Nebraska;
That old shanty mouldered in the long ago;
We have now a mansion large enough for twenty
Of our relative and friends who come and go;

And we're going to have the grandest Exposition
That this busy, gay old world has ever seen,
And they're coming, for we give to them a welcome
To the gates of Omaha, Nebraska's Queen." 

You may sing and talk of fairs and expositions,
Of the war and brutal conduct of old Spain,
But the world had better look for transportation
To the Trans-Mississippi on the plains."