In Kentucky

The moonlight falls the softest
  In Kentucky;
The summer's days come oft'est
  In Kentucky;
Friendship is the strongest,
Love's fires glow the longest;
Yet, a wrong is always wrongest
  In Kentucky.

The sunshine's ever brightest
  In Kentucky;
The breezes whisper lightest
  In Kentucky;
Plain girls are the fewest,
Maidens' eyes the bluest,
Their little hearts are truest
  In Kentucky.

Life's burdens bear the lightest
  In Kentucky;
The home fires burn the brightest
  In Kentucky;
While players are the keenest,
Cards come out the meanest,
The pocket empties cleanest
  In Kentucky.

Orators are the grandest
  In Kentucky;
Officials are the blandest
  In Kentucky;
Boys are all the fliest,
Danger ever nighest,
Taxes are the highest
  In Kentucky.

The bluegrass waves the bluest
  In Kentucky;
Yet bluebloods are the fewest (?)
  In Kentucky;
Moonshine is the clearest,
By no means the dearest,
And yet, it acts the queerest,
  In Kentucky.

The dove's notes are the saddest
  In Kentucky;
The streams dance on the gladdest
  In Kentucky;
Hip pockets are the thickest,
Pistol hands the slickest,
The cylinder turns quickest
  In Kentucky.

Song birds are the sweetest
  In Kentucky;
The thoroughbreds the fleetest
  In Kentucky;
Mountains tower proudest,
Thunder peals the loudest,
The landscape is the grandest - and
Politics - the damnedest
  In Kentucky.