Come, lift it on high, boys!
Once more let it fly, boys,
We’ll fight and we’ll die
For the Red, White and Blue!
’Twas hallowed before, boys,
In battles of yore, boys,
We’ll guard it once more
With our bosoms so true!
Then fling out the flag, boys,
From spar and from crag, boys,
No freeman shall lag
While there’s fighting to do:
To the front of the fray, boys,
We’ll soon find the way, boys,
And yet win the day
For our Red, White and Blue!
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Our Country, Now and Ever.
Copied by permission of HORACE WATERS, Music Publisher,
481 Broadway, N. Y., owner of the copyright.
Our Country, now and ever!
Land of the good and free!
What daring hand would sever
The ties of Liberty?
Let him be known as traitor,
And traitor shall he be;
Who would insult this nation
Must first himself be free.
For such are slaves and cowards--
Their names a thing of shame;
To endless time our Union
Will but increase in fame.
Fight, comrades, for our nation,
For Freedom’s holy light;
In union is salvation,
God will protect the right.
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My Love he is a Zou-zu.
My love is a Zou-zu so gallant and bold,
He’s rough and he’s handsome, scarce nineteen years old,
To show off in Washington, he has left his own dear,
And my heart is a-breaking because he’s not here.