id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 50335 nan American War Ballads and Lyrics, Volume 1 (of 2) A Collection of the Songs and Ballads of the Colonial Wars, the Revolutions, the War of 1812-15, the War with Mexico and the Civil War .txt text/plain 29376 2819 91 write the poetry of war, the men who make the songs that soldiers love in this light a study of the war ballads and lyrics of our country As soon as they came nigh him, two guns he did let fly, Beneath this fair tree, like the patriarchs of old, 'Tis heaven-born freedom fires us all, and strengthens each brave son, And rush, all desperate, on our foe, nor breathe till battle won, As the day-spring unbounded, thy splendor shall flow, "Fight on, my brave boys," then Paul Jones he cried, His name shall rank with the gallant and brave, namely, among the poems of the last war with Great Britain.--EDITOR.] Shot well home, my brave boys, they shortly shall see, Our brave old General comes to regain the day; "For God and our country we'll fight till we die! So sleep till God shall wake the lands! ./cache/50335.txt ./txt/50335.txt