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High-Toned Southern Gentleman 
High-Toned Southern Gentleman 
Down in the sunny Southern clime, the curious ones may find A ripping, tearing gentleman of an uncommon kind. A stagg'ring, swagg'ring sort of chap that takes his whiskey straight And frequently condemns his eyes unto an awful fate, A high-toned Southern gentleman, one of the present time. 
He always wears a full-dress coat, pre-Adamite in cut With waistcoat of the broadest style, through which his ruffles jut Six breastpins deck his horrid front, and on his fingers shine Whole invoices of diamond rings (spoken) which would hardly pass muster with the "Original Jacobs" in
 Chatham Street (sung)for jewels genuine This "high-toned" Southern gentleman, one of the present time. 
He takes to euchre kindly, too, and plays an awful hand Especially when those he tricks his style don't understand; And if he wins, why then he stops to pocket all the stakes But if he loses, then he says (spoken) to the unfortunatwe stranger wjo had chanced to win, "It's my
 opinion that you are a cursed Abolitionist, and if you don't leave
 South Carolina in an hour, you'll be hung like a dog!" but no offer (sung) to pay his lossed make, This "high-toned" Southern gentleman, one of the present time. 
Of course, he's all the time in debt to those who credit give, Yet manages upon the best the market yields to live. But if a Northern creditor asks him his bill to heed, This honorable gentleman (spoken) instantly draws his Bowie knife and pistols, dons a blue cockade,
 and declares that, in consequence of the repeated aggressions of the North and its gross violations of the Constitution, he feels that it would utterly degrade him to pay any debt whatever, and in fact that he has at last determined to SECEDE! 
This "high-toned" Southern gentleman, one of the present time. 
From Songs of the Civil War, Silber APR99