Dueling State Toasts

Compare this dueling toast to this one from the Pearl.

The red-headed senator from Illinois got into a controversy with the senator from Ohio.

Said the senator from Illinois:

"Here's to the American eagle
A great and glorious bird
That in Ohio dropped a turd."

Said the senator from Ohio:

"Here's to the state of Ohio
Who's soil is fertile and rich
Which needs no turd from your old bird
You red-headed son-of-a-bitch!"

[1934 Anecdota Americana Series Two. Anecdote 87, pg. 36.; Legman attributes this to the 1927 Book of a Thousand Laughs (unseen) in his 1959 Limericks.]

Here are more recent variant examples culled from Usenet groups:

At a banquet, the delegate from Missouri offered the toast:

Here's to the American eagle,
That beautiful bird of prey:
He flies from Maine to Mexico
And shits on Ioway.

To which the delegate from Iowa replied:

Here's to the State of Iowa,
Whose soil is exceedingly rich:
It needs no turd from a bald-headed bird
Or a red-headed son of a bitch.

[From: ananda(at) cs.utexas.edu (Anandamoy Kar) Newsgroups: rec.humor 23 Jun 1993. Check to see if this is from The Book of a 1000 Laughs, check Anecdota Americana also.]

A Texan died and went to heaven. When he got to the pearly gates, St. Peter said to him, "Come on in but you aren't going to like it."
.........

At a gathering of US governors, the New Yorker stood up and made a toast:

Here's to the American Eagle...
with wings so mighty and great...
he flies up high, way in the sky...
and sh--s on the Lone Star State.

more toasts followed, then it came the Texan's turn to toast:

Here's to the State of Texas...
with land so fertile and rich...
we don't need no turds from your high flyin' birds...
you yankee son-uv-a-bitch.

[From: broke61705(at) aol.com Date: 1998-07-25 Usenet: alt.fifty-plus.friends ]