{"id":615,"date":"2010-08-01T03:02:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T03:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/?page_id=615"},"modified":"2010-08-05T12:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T12:11:41","slug":"song-by-george-campbell-1765","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smithrebellion1765.com\/?page_id=615","title":{"rendered":"Song by George Campbell c.1760s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ye patriot souls who love to sing,
\nWhat serves your country and your king,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In wealth, peace, any royal estates,
\nAttention give whilst I rehearse,
\nA modern fact, in jingling verse,
\nHow party interest strove what it cou’d,
\nTo profit itself by public blood,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But, justly met its merited fate.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let all those Indian traders claim,
\nTheir just reward, inglorious fame,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For vile base and treacherous ends.
\nTo Pollins, in the spring they sent,
\nMuch warlike stores, with an intent
\nTo carry them to our barbarous foes,
\nExpecting that no-body dare oppose,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A present to their Indian friends.<\/em><\/p>\n

Astonish’d at the wild design,
\nFrontier inhabitants combin’d
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With brave souls, to stop their career,
\nAlthough some men apostatiz’d,
\nThe bold frontiers they bravely stood,
\nTo act for their King and their country’s good,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In joint league, and strangers to fear.<\/em><\/p>\n

On March the fifth, in sixty-five,
\nTheir Indian presents did arrive,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In long pomp and cavalcade,
\nNear Sidelong Hill, where in disguise,
\nSome patriots did their train surprise,
\nAnd quick as lightning tumbled their loads,
\nAnd kindled them bonfires in the woods,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And mostly burnt their whole brigade.
\nAt Loudon, when they heard the news,
\nThey scarcely knew which way to choose,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For blind rage and discontent;
\nAt length some soldiers they sent out,
\nWith guides for to conduct the route,
\nAnd seized some men that were trav’ling there,
\nAnd hurried them into Loudon where
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They laid them fast with one consent.<\/em><\/p>\n

But men of resolution thought,
\nToo much to see their neighbors caught,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For no crime but false surmise;
\nForthwith they join’d a warlike band,
\nAnd march’d to Loudon out of hand,
\nAnd kept the jailors pris’ners there,
\nUntil our friends enlarged were,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Without fraud or any disguise.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let mankind censure or commend,
\nThis rash performance in the end,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then both sides will find their account.
\n‘Tis true no law can justify,
\nTo burn our neighbors property,
\nBut when this property is design’d
\nTo serve the enemies of mankind,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s high treason in the amount.<\/em><\/p>\n

Written by George Campbell, (an Irish gentleman\u00a0who had been educated in Dublin) and frequently sung to the tune of the “Black Joke”.\u00a0 <\/span>An\u00a0Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Col. James Smith.,<\/em> Smith, James.\u00a0Robert Clarke & Co. Cincinnati Ohio., 1870\u00a0<\/span>
\n\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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