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... round de corner , and walks right smack into de door ob de hen - house , and sot de hens to screamin ' in de mos ' awful kind o ' manner . I jes ' seizes my old musket , dat had seed sarvice in the battle o ' Brandywine , and makes a ...
... round de corner , and walks right smack into de door ob de hen - house , and sot de hens to screamin ' in de mos ' awful kind o ' manner . I jes ' seizes my old musket , dat had seed sarvice in the battle o ' Brandywine , and makes a ...
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... round about in de dark arter de white of de enemy's eye ; but no black fox dar as I could ' scover . Thinks I to myself , ole black fox , you's not gwine to uptrip me dis way , for I'se bound to spy you out some whar . So I cocks my ...
... round about in de dark arter de white of de enemy's eye ; but no black fox dar as I could ' scover . Thinks I to myself , ole black fox , you's not gwine to uptrip me dis way , for I'se bound to spy you out some whar . So I cocks my ...
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... round agin , and what do you think dese ' stounded eyes o ' mine seed ? Why , I seed dat same old dead black fox , riz from de dead , seize de ole rooster by de froat , swing him over his back at de fust toss , and run off wid him like ...
... round agin , and what do you think dese ' stounded eyes o ' mine seed ? Why , I seed dat same old dead black fox , riz from de dead , seize de ole rooster by de froat , swing him over his back at de fust toss , and run off wid him like ...
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... in it , Only binding round it . ' " " A surgeon in the British army in Albany , in 1755 , composed a song to that air , in derision of the uncouth appearance of the New England troops assembled there , and called it Yankey , 3 ** 25.
... in it , Only binding round it . ' " " A surgeon in the British army in Albany , in 1755 , composed a song to that air , in derision of the uncouth appearance of the New England troops assembled there , and called it Yankey , 3 ** 25.
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... round about their middles . The troopers , too , would gallop up , and fire right in their faces ; It scared me almost half to death to see them run sich races . Old Uncle Sam come then to change some pancakes and some onions , For ...
... round about their middles . The troopers , too , would gallop up , and fire right in their faces ; It scared me almost half to death to see them run sich races . Old Uncle Sam come then to change some pancakes and some onions , For ...
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Hail Columbia, the Flag, and Yankee Doodle Dandy William Thomas Roberts Saffell No preview available - 2016 |
Hail Columbia, the Flag, and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1864) William Thomas Roberts Saffell No preview available - 2009 |
Hail Columbia, the Flag, and Yankee Doodle Dandy William Thomas Roberts Saffell No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
American Anacreon in Heaven appeared army arter Aunt Phillis Bacchanalian song Bacchus Bacchus's vine Baltimore band of brothers battle Boston Boston song bout brave British chief chitter litter choir cow-boy Cully Custis dinner Dogue Run Dolly enemy eyes Father fire fish flag forever Fort McHenry freedom French Directory glorious glory gobblers gone gwine Hail Columbia hand heart Hopkinson hurrah I'se ington kegs king lady land Liberty live mansion Marse mighty Minerva Miss Nelly Mount Vernon myrtle of Venus nation neber night normous o'er patriotic peach party Philadelphia Pompey President President's March Ralph Tomlinson regiment replied round Scomberry shore sing soon Star-Spangled Banner stars Stricker stripes sumpin sung tarkeys tree turkey driver United Venus with Bacchus's Wash Washington rules William Colfax Yankee doodle dandy you's young
Popular passages
Page 103 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave...
Page 79 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 103 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 103 - Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming; Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 55 - Enjoyed the peace your valor won. Let independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies. Firm, united, let us be, Rallying round our Liberty; As a band of brothers joined, Peace and safety we shall find.
Page 56 - Behold the chief who now commands, Once more to serve his country, stands — The rock on which the storm will beat, The rock on which the storm will beat; But, armed in virtue firm and true, His hopes are fixed on Heaven and you.
Page 103 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just ; And this be our motto :
Page 24 - The rebels — more's the pity, "Without a boat are all afloat, "And rang'd before the city. "The motley crew, in vessels new, " With Satan for their guide, sir. "Pack'd up in bags, or wooden kegs, "Come driving down the tide, sir. "Therefore prepare for bloody war, "These kegs must all be routed, "Or surely we despised shall be, "And British courage doubted.
Page 71 - When the fire is beginning to kindle, and your heart growing warm, propound these questions to it. Who is this invader? Have I a competent knowledge of him? Is he a man of good character; a man of sense?
Page 109 - I hold in my own right shall receive their freedom. To emancipate them during her life would, though earnestly wished by me, be attended with such insuperable difficulties, on account of their intermixture by...