LOCATION: Ulster, Ireland; Carolinas, America; Meridian, Mississippi
PERIOD: 1621-1905
DRAMATIS PERSONAE:
Tristan Knox (1621); Nathaniel Knox (1722) ; Jeremiah Knox (1774-1864); Matthew Knox (1833)
NATHANIEL KNOX WAS AN ULSTER MAN
(F. D. Leone, Jr.)
Nathaniel Knox was an Ulster man
A staunch Presbyterian
Sold his labor for a six week voyage
With a wife and two small boys
Traced his line to 1621
To his great-great-grandad Tristan
They came to Ulster from County Galloway
Nathaniel Knox sailed away
It was a small thing that he took
A list of names in a holy book
Every Knox that’ll come along
Will write more names of his own
Nathaniel Knox went to Carolina
Took his grandson Jeremiah
Who was the first Knox American-born
In seventeen seventy-four
It was a small thing that he took
A list of names in a holy book
Every Knox that’ll come along
Will write more names of his own
It ain’t rained for six weeks now
Jeremiah watched his fields turn brown
One minute he’s cooking molasses from sugar cane
Then everything he’s built goes up flames
Matthew Knox was Jeremiah’s grandson
He left Carolina for Meridian
Mississippi soil is rich and dark
Matthew Knox has an Ulster heart
It was a small thing that he took
A list of names in a holy book
Every Knox that’ll come along
Will write more names of his own
© 2018 Frank David Leone, Jr./Highway 80 Music (ASCAP). The songs and stories on the Highway 80 Stories website are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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