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Author: | 367 [ Sun Apr 28, 2002 9:27 am ] |
Post subject: | Found Nailed to a Tree |
"THE REBELS" (a loyalist song from 1778) Ye brave honest subjects who dare to be loyal, And have stood the brunt of every trial, Of hunting shirts and rifle guns; Come listen awhile and I’ll tell you a song; I’ll show you those Yankees are all in the wrong, Who, with blustering look and most awkward gait, ‘Gainst their lawful sovereign dare for to prate, With their hunting shirts and rifle guns. The arch-rebels, barefooted tatterdemalions, In baseness exceed all other rebellions, With their hunting shirts and rifle guns: To rend the empire, the most infamous lies, Their mock-patriot Congress, do always devise; Independence, like the first rebels, they claim, But their plots will be damned in the annals of fame, With their hunting shirts and rifle guns. Forgetting the mercies of Great Britain’s King, Who saved their forefathers’ necks from the string, With hunting shirts and rifle guns, They renounce all allegiance and take up their arms, Assemble together like hornets in swarms, So dirty their backs, and so wretched their show, That carrion-crow follows wherever they go, With their hunting shirts and rifle guns. With loud peels of laughter, your sides, sirs, would crack, To see General Convict and Colonel Shoe-Black, With their hunting shirts and rifle-guns. See cobblers and quacks, rebel priests and the like, Pettifoggers and barbers, with sword and with pike, All strutting the standard of Satan beside, And honest names using, their black deeds to hide, With their hunting shirts and rifle guns. This perjured banditti, now ruin this land, And o’er its poor people claim lawless command, With their hunting shirts and rifle guns. Their pasteboard dollars prove a common curse, They don’t chink like silver and gold in our purse, With nothing their leaders have paid their debts off, Their honor’s, dishonour, and justice they scoff, With their hunting shirts and rifle guns. For one lawful ruler, many tyrants we’ve got, Who force young and old to their wars, to be shot, With their hunting shirts and rifle guns. Our good King, God speed him! never used men so, We then could speak, act, and like freemen could go, But committees enslave us, our liberty’s gone, Our trade and church murdered; our country’s undone, By hunting shirts and rifle guns. Come take up your glasses, each true loyal heart, Ane may every rebel meet his due desert, With his hunting shirt and rifle gun. May Congress, Conventions, those damned inquisitions, Be fed with hot sulphur from Lucifer’s kitchens, May commerce and peace again be restored, And Americans own their true sovereign lord. Then oblivion to shirts and rifle guns. GOD SAVE THE KING! <center><font color=gold> Brigadier General Sir Phil Natta KB</font id=gold></center>[url="http://www.angelfire.com/mo3/cccbritisharmy/FootGuards.htm"]<center><font color=red>HM First Foot Guards</font id=red></center>[/url]<center><img src="http://us.f1.yahoofs.com/users/b3df3682/bc/1776/footflg4.gif?bc3b6F9Ajy932yH0" border=0></center> Just had to repeat my favorite lines: With loud peels of laughter, your sides, sirs, would crack, To see General Convict and Colonel Shoe-Black HAAAARR! <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> Edited by - Phil Natta on 04/28/2002 17:30:51 |
Author: | 19 [ Sun Apr 28, 2002 10:11 am ] |
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Phil...that's beautiful..<img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle> <img src="http://www.royal42nd.homestead.com/files/rvoia.gif" border=0> Rawdons Volunteers of Ireland-British Army 1776/1812 Club Loyal Irish Volunteers AoC ACWGC 2/42nd Highlanders-Anglo/Allied Army NWC Edited by - scott on 04/28/2002 16:15:50 |
Author: | Al Amos [ Sun Apr 28, 2002 11:03 am ] |
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There once was a man from Nantuckett.... Major Al Amos 1st U.S. Dragoons 1812-R |
Author: | Ernie Sands [ Sun Apr 28, 2002 5:39 pm ] |
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Bravo, excellent DITTY!<img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle> <b><font color=gold>Ernie Sands Col, 3rd East Kent,CCC President, Colonial Camp Club Col,1 Konig,VIII,AdR BG,CO XXIII Corps AoO Sch,183Inf,VIII,PzC Pvt B Co, 3/3-MBC </b></font id=gold> |
Author: | David O Connor [ Mon Apr 29, 2002 4:12 pm ] |
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Do you get the feeling the writer really had a 'bad experience' with 'hunting shirts and rifles' eh? - how could THAT happen methinks?? <img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle> CCC Rank = Major(bvt Gen) CinC Colonial/US Army |
Author: | 239 [ Mon Apr 29, 2002 7:21 pm ] |
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"They renounce all allegiance and take up their arms, Assemble together like hornets in swarms, So dirty their backs, and so wretched their show, That carrion-crow follows wherever they go, With their hunting shirts and rifle guns." Yeah the author got it right. He must have been sober at the moment! A rarity for sure! What sane individual wouldn't renounce such a buffoon? We sons of liberty gather together just like the man said, like hornets to sting those hirelings of the God forsaken so-called King of the Britians and make em run for their miserable lives. The Carrion Crows do indeed follow our ranks. They are sure of plenty of chow as our "hunting shirts and rifles" finish off those oppressors of right thinking men! Yes, our clothing is dirty, we don't feel the need to put on our finest just to provide some food for those Carrion Crows! Hurrah for Liberty and George Washington! Sgt Hopper 21st Infantry |
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