Luyện nghe bài hát The Nancy

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

Up spoke Captain then, "Surrender, now, I say!
them your Nancy schooner and make off without delay!
Set me ashore, I do implore. I not die this way!"
I, "You go, or get below, for I'll be on my way!"
the Nancy!
"Surrender, Hell!" I say.
Aboard the
"It's to Mackinac I'll fight, aboard the Nancy-o."
Well up 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."
I, "I'll not but send you shot to buzz about your ears."
Well, fired as we hove anchor, boys, and we got under way,
But scarce a dozen broadsides, boys, the Nancy did pay
Before the business sickened them. They ran away.
All sail we made, and reached the Lake before the of day.
the Nancy!
We them shot and cheers.
the Nancy!
We them running through the trees, aboard the Nancy-o.
Oh, military gentlemen, they bluster, and pray.
sailors and the Nancy, boys, made fifty run away.
The powder in their hair day was powder sent their way
By and ragged sailor men, who swore that they would stay.
the Nancy!
Six and found a day
the Nancy!
No for men to scorn, aboard the Nancy-o.