Luyện nghe bài hát The Nancy

[There countless skirmishes on the Great Lakes between ships and boats of
all and sizes during the War of 1812-14. "Well", Stan said, "we won the
damned war but from some of the accounts really have to wonder how!"]
The clothes men do give them airs, the fellows do compare.
A regimentals shine, and women call them fair.
I am Alexander MacIntosh, a nephew to the
And I do men who are vain, the men with powdered hair.
I command the Schooner from the Moy on Lake St. Claire.
On the third day of October, boys, I did set from there.
To the garrison at I quickly would repair
Captain Maxwell and his wife and kids and powdered hair.
Aboard the
In bright.
Aboard the
all his pomp and bluster there, aboard the Nancy-o.
Below the St. Clair rapids I sent scouts unto the
To ask a friendly Whyandot to say lay before.
"Amherstburg has fallen, the same for you in store!
And militia sent to take you there, horse or more."

Up spoke Maxwell then, "Surrender, now, I say!
Give them your schooner and make off without delay!
Set me ashore, I do implore. I will not die way!"
Says I, "You go, or get below, for be on my way!"
the Nancy!
"Surrender, Hell!" I say.
Aboard the
"It's back to I'll fight, aboard the Nancy-o."
up comes Colonel Beaubien, then, who shouts as he comes near.
"Surrender up your schooner and I swear you've to fear.
We've got your Captain Maxwell, sir, so yourself his tears."
Says I, "I'll not but send you shot to buzz your ears."
Well, fired as we hove anchor, boys, and we got under way,
But scarce a broadsides, boys, the Nancy they did pay
the business sickened them. They bravely ran away.
All sail we made, and reached the before the close of day.
the Nancy!
We sent shot and cheers.
the Nancy!
We watched running through the trees, aboard the Nancy-o.
Oh, military gentlemen, bluster, roar and pray.
Nine sailors and the Nancy, boys, fifty run away.
The powder in their hair that day was powder their way
By poor and sailor men, who swore that they would stay.
the Nancy!
Six pence and a day
the Nancy!
No for men to scorn, aboard the Nancy-o.