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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=416095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Oxford Cheese Makers Song</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=416095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">When Father Ranney left the States<br>In Canada to try the fates, <br>He settled down in Dereham,<br>Then no dairyman lived near him.<br>He was the first there to squeeze<br>His cows milk into good cheese,<br>And at each Provincial Show<br>His famed cheese was all the go.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=416095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">CHORUS.<br>Then long life to Father Ranney,<br>May he wealth and honor gain, aye !</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=416095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He always took the first prize,<br>Both for quality and size ;<br>But many of his neighbors<br>Now profit by his labors.<br>And the ladies dress in silk<br>From the proceeds of the milk :<br>But those who buy their butter,<br>' How dear it is,' they mutter.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=416095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">CHORUS.<br>Then long life to Father Ranney,<br>May he his health retain, aye !</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=416095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Farmers now can not be beat<br>With their cheese and their wheat,<br>Though now their greatest care is<br>For to watch o'er their dairies ;<br>They carefully fill their mows<br>With provender for their cows,<br>And they thus enrich the soil<br>With much profit for their toil.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=416095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">CHORUS.<br>We will sing this refrain, aye, <br>Long life to Father Ranney.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=416095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The motto, 'Union is Strength,'<br>Is carried out at length <br>In the most compact array<br>At every cheese factory.<br>You'll see without going as far as <br>There is one kept by Harris,<br>The factory of Ingersoll,<br>Just out at the first toll.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=416095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">CHORUS.<br>May he never suffer pain, aye, <br>The father of cheesemen, Ranney.<br>Or you may go all the way <br>To see one kept by Galloway,<br>And out in the Norwiches<br>Dairymen are making riches;<br>And honor has been won<br>By Harvey Farrington ;<br>The same path is trodden<br>By folks about Culloden.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=416095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">CHORUS.<br>May his strength never wane, aye,<br>The great dairyman, Ranney.<br>And of late we saw some<br>Very good cheese from Lawson ; <br>All around Mount Elgin<br>Dairymen have well done;<br>And out in East Nissouri<br>They make some scores a day ;<br>From Jarvis and Elliott<br>Some good cheese is bought.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=416095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">CHORUS<br>And we will all remain, aye, <br>Indebted to Father Ranney.<br>Now we close this glorious theme, <br>This song of curds and rich cream, <br>Subject worthy of our muse, <br>You can buy your hoops and screws, <br>Boxes and vats, all things like these,<br>In Ingersoll, great mart for cheese ;<br>Here buyers all do congregate, <br>And pay for cheese the highest rate.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=416095" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">CHORUS.<br>So we call on you again, aye, <br>To honor Father Ranney.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=James+McIntyre">James McIntyre</a></strong></div>