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" And now daddy cross'd the Atlantic,
To drum for Montcalm and his men;
Morbleu ! but it makes a man frantic
To think we were beaten again !
My daddy he cross'd the wide ocean,
My mother brought me on her neck,
And we came in the year fifty-seven
To guard the good town of Quebec.

"In the year fifty-nine came the Britons,--
Full well I remember the day,--
They knocked at our gates for admittance,
T heir vessels were moor'd in our bay.
Says our general, ' Drive me yon red-coats
Away to the sea whence they come !'
So we march'd against Wolfe and his bull-dogs,
We marched at the sound of the drum.


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