Tonalidad: G major•
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Gallants, attend, and hear a friend
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Drill forth harmonious ditty
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Strange things I'll tell, which late befell
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In Philadelphia city
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T 'was early day, as poets say,
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Just as the sun was rising
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A soldier stood on a log of wood,
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he saw a sight surprising.
As in the maze he stood to gaze,
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the truth can't be denied, sir.
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Despite a score of kegs
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or more come floating on the tide, sir.
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A sailor, too, in jerkin' blue,
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the strange appearance viewing,
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First damned his eyes
with great surprise,
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Then said, there's trouble brewing.
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The kegs must hold the rebel bold,
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Packed in like pickled herring,
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And they've come down
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to attack the town
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In this new way of ferrying.
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The sailor flew, the soldier too,
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And scared almost to death, sir,
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Ran out their shoes to spread the news
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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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The strangest scenes were acted
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For some ran here and some ran there
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And some ran quite distracted
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Some fire cried which some denied
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But said the earth had quaked
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And girls and boys with hideous noise
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Ran through the town half naked.
Arise! Arise !"
Sir Erskine cries,
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The rebels moors, the pity.
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Without a boat are all afloat,
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And ranged outside the city.
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The cannons roar from
shore to shore,
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The small arms made a rattle.
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Since war began, I'll swear,
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No man e 'er saw so strange a battle.
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The fish below swam to and fro,
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 keg'st is said, though strongly made
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Of rebels, staves, and hopes, sir,
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Could not oppose those valiant foes
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The conquering British troops are.
A thousand men with each a pen,
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Or more, upon my word, sir,
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Would be too few, it is too true,
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Such valour to record, sir.
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When faced with guns,
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the red coat runs too fast
for Yankee Legs, sir.
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We all can see his bravery
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subduing wooden kegs, sir.
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