Hearts of oak

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- Hearts of Oak.

- Clout the Cauldron.

FINIS

Hearts of Oak.

COme chear up my lads, 'tis to glory we steer,

to add somthing new to this wonderfull year

To honour we call you, not press you like slaves

For who is so free as we sons of the waves?

Hearts of oak are our ships, hearts of oak are our men,

We always are ready;

Steddy, boys, steddy;

We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.

We never meet our foes but we wish them to stay,

They never meet us but they wish us away:

If they run then we follow, and drive them ashore,

For if they wont fight us, we cannot do more.

Hearts of Oak are our ships, &c.

Monsieur Thurot in the absence of Boyce,

Went over to Ireland to brag the dear joys;

Near Man, Elliot met him, and gave him a blow,

Which sent him to tell it to Pluto below,

Hearts of oak are our ships, &c.

They talk to invade us, these terrible foes,

They frighten our women, our children, and beaux

But if their flat bottoms in darkness come o'er,

Sure Britons they'll find to receive them on shore,

Hearts of oak are our ships, &c.

We'll make them to run, and we'll make them to sweat

In spite of the devil and Brussels Gazette.

Then chear up my lads, with one heart let us sing

Our soldiers, our sailors, our statesmen, and king,

Hearts of oak are our ships, &c.

Clout the Cauldron.

HAve you any pots or pans?

Or any broken chandlers?

I am tinkler to my trade.

And newly come frae Fanders.

As scant of silver as of grace,

Disbanded we've a bad run;

Gar tell the lady of the place,

I'm come to clout her caldron,

Fa adri, didle, didle, &c.

Madam, if you have any wark for me

I'll do't to your contentment,

And dinna care a single flea,

for any man's resentment;

For lady fair tho' I appear

To every one a tinker,

Yet to yourself I'm bold to tell,

I am a gentle jinker,

Fa adri, didle, &c.

Love Jupiter into a swan

turn'd for his lovely Leda;

He like a bull o'er meadows ran,

to carry aff Europa:

Then may not I as well as he,

to hear your Argos blinker,

And win your love like mighty Jove

Thus hide me in a tinker?

Fa adri, didle, &c.

Sir you appear a cunning man,

But this fine plot you'll fail in,

For there is neither pot nor pan,

of mine you'll drive a nail in:

then bind your budget on your back,

and nails up in your apron;

For I've a tinker under tack,

that used to clout my caldron,

Fa adri, didle, &c.

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Hearts of oak

Garrick, David, 1717-1779.

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http://ota.ox.ac.uk/id/5245

ID [isbn10]

1106022440

ID [isbn13]

9781106022448

ID [TCP]

K109848.000

ID [BIBNO]

CW3313137829

ID [ECLL]

0530904100

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— Hearts of oak, Garrick, David, 1717-1779.. 1 sheet ; 1/8⁰. [Edinburgh?,. 1776]. [Anonymous. By David Garrick.] [A song.] ["Come chear up my lads it is to glory we steer," - Includes: 'Clout the cauldron'.] [Printed on the same sheet as 'A memorable song on the lamentable, bloody, and unhappy hunting Chevy-Chace'; intended to be separated.] [Reproduction of original from the British Library.] [English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT139270.] [Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group).]

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