Key: G major•
Verse 1
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Gallants, attend, and hear a friend
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Strange things I'll tell, which late befell
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T 'was early day, as poets say,
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he saw a sight surprising.
As in the maze he stood to gaze,
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Despite a score of kegs
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or more come floating on the tide, sir.
with great surprise,
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Then said, there's trouble brewing.
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In this new way of ferrying.
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And screamed till out of breath,
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Throughout the town as they ran down
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For some ran here and some ran there
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But said the earth had quaked
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Ran through the town half naked.
Arise! Arise !"
Sir Erskine cries,
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And ranged outside the city.
shore to shore,
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No man e 'er saw so strange a battle.
Attacked from every quarter.
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Why, sure, they, the devil's to pay
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Among folks above the water.
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The conquering British troops are.
A thousand men with each a pen,
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Would be too few, it is too true,
for Yankee Legs, sir.
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subduing wooden kegs, sir.
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