HURRAH FOR ROUGH AND READY

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When Washington and Jackson fled,
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Folks thought our race of heroes dead,
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But Freedom to her soil still steady,
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Sent gallant Taylor, "the Rough and Ready."

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Hurrah, hurrah, Hurrah, hurrah,
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Both night and day with voices steady,
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[Hurrah, hurrah, Hurrah, hurrah,]
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Shout for our gallant "Rough and Ready."

[A native son of old Kentuck,
With a heart like a lion, an eye like a buck,
A head as clear as her skies so free,
And frame as tough as her hickory tree.]

In eighteen "12" 'gainst twelve to one,
He bravely saved Fort Harrison,
And made Miami's red skins fly,
From the lead of his guns, and the fire of his eye.

At Florida in '37,
With five hundred men --- the foe eleven,
He burnt "red alligators" Toby,
And conquered at Lake Okeechobee.

There Thompson, Brooke, and a hundred fell,
'Mid the roar of the storm and the Indian yell,
But Taylor gave the cats such cracks,
That they flew from the field like the fur from their backs.

[At last against the lurking foe,
The pride of Bandit, Mexico,
He met them five to one quite handy,
And gave them Yankee Doodle Dandy.]

[He covered Palo Alto's grass,
And Resaca de la Palma's Pass,
With heads and limbs and being winner,
He fed his troops on Arista's dinner.]

Then hail to Zach., the first of men,
With sword or word, or with the pen,
To the people ever true and steady,
We'll find him still "Old Rough and Ready."

[From 'Old Zack upon the Track']

Oh, Lewis Cass, he went to France
King Phillippe showed him how to dance
He dressed him up in clothes so fine
Then let him come with him to dine

Get out of the way, poor Cass unsteady
Thought people were too rough and ready

Cass forthwith set to work to make
Americans all a court-dress take
To cost a hundred dollars or more
And wouldn't introduce the Poor

Get out of the way, the toiling masses
Hate court-dress and courtier Casses

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