On verso: "Winchester, Ill. From Talman Son & Loan Bank - Chicago 1966"]]>
This song was written in honor of U.S. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. Cover depicts man (Uncle Sam?) riding an ironclad ram on the Mississippi River and includes the following lines:

"Thus we ramble along thro' cycles of time,
Find History's rampage is rather sublime,
But the Ram of all Rams is the Ram of our day,
Which is shaking the world with a rampart dismay!
Iron harnessed, steam driven, it sweeps o'er the sea, Our American Rampart, the shield of the free!"]]>

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