. American war ballads and lyrics: a collection of the songs and ballads of the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the civil war . .^^Tn. THE YANKEE MAN-OF-WAR. [Descriptive of the daring bravery of Captain JohnPaul Jones, in his cruise in the Irish Channel in 1778.] (From Admiral l/uces Naval Songs.) TIS of a gallant Yankee ship that flew the stripesand stars,And the whistling wind from the west-nor-west blew through the pitch-pine spars,—With her starboard tacks a-board, my boys, she hung upon the gale,On an autumn night we raised the light on the old
. American war ballads and lyrics: a collection of the songs and ballads of the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812-15, the war with Mexico, and the civil war . .^^Tn. THE YANKEE MAN-OF-WAR. [Descriptive of the daring bravery of Captain JohnPaul Jones, in his cruise in the Irish Channel in 1778.] (From Admiral l/uces Naval Songs.) TIS of a gallant Yankee ship that flew the stripesand stars,And the whistling wind from the west-nor-west blew through the pitch-pine spars,—With her starboard tacks a-board, my boys, she hung upon the gale,On an autumn night we raised the light on the old headof Kinsale. 80 ^be 3^an??ee /lftan=otsMar Si It was a clear and cloudless night, and the wind blew steady and strong,As gaily over the sparkling deep our good ship bowled along;With the foaming seas beneath her bow the fiery waves she spread,And bending low her bosom of snow, she buried her lee cat-head. There was no talk of shortning sail by him who walked the poop,And under the press of her pondring jib, the boom bent like a hoop!And the groaning water-ways told the strain that held her stout main-tack,Bnt he only laughed as he glanced aloft at a white and silvry
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