The Great Know Nothing Song, ‘I Don’t Know.’
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: H. J. Kehr, 1850s. Single sheet measuring 6 x 9 ½ inches. A broadside with the lyrics to Francis F. Eastlack’s “The Great Know Nothing Song, ‘I Don’t Know.’” The song lampooned the American Party, known as the “Know Nothing” party for its members’ practice of saying they.....

