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OH! FIRM AS OAK.
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Here's a health to our tars on the wide ocean ranging,
Perhaps even now some broadsides are exchanging—
We'll on shipboard and join in the fight;
And when with the foe we are firmly engaging,
Till the fire of our guns lulls the sea in its raging,
On our country we'll think with delight:
So fill, fill your glasses, &c.
Perhaps even now some broadsides are exchanging—
We'll on shipboard and join in the fight;
And when with the foe we are firmly engaging,
Till the fire of our guns lulls the sea in its raging,
On our country we'll think with delight:
So fill, fill your glasses, &c.
On that throne where once Alfred in glory was seated,
Long, long, may our Queen by her people be greeted;
Oh! to guard her we'll be of one mind.
May religion, law, order, be strictly defended,
And continue the blessings they first were intended,
In union the nation to bind!
So fill, fill your glasses, &c.
Long, long, may our Queen by her people be greeted;
Oh! to guard her we'll be of one mind.
May religion, law, order, be strictly defended,
And continue the blessings they first were intended,
In union the nation to bind!
So fill, fill your glasses, &c.
Oh! Firm as Oak.
Oh! firm as oak, and free from care,
The sailor holds his heart at sea,
If she he loves his cabin share,
And Cupid page to Neptune be.
Come night's deep noon, and ne'er a moon,
Nor star aloft a watch to keep,
The tar can be gay as landsmen in day,
With a cheering glass and a smiling lass.
While boon the wind blows,
And smooth the tide flows,
And the ship steady goes,
Still steady, steady, steady,
Through the boundless deep.
The sailor holds his heart at sea,
If she he loves his cabin share,
And Cupid page to Neptune be.
Come night's deep noon, and ne'er a moon,
Nor star aloft a watch to keep,
The tar can be gay as landsmen in day,
With a cheering glass and a smiling lass.
While boon the wind blows,
And smooth the tide flows,
And the ship steady goes,
Still steady, steady, steady,
Through the boundless deep.
When wintry gales blow bleak alarms,
In turn he mounts the chilly deck;
But watch relieved, his Susan's charms
All thoughts but those of pleasure check.
Come night's deep noon, and ne'er a moon,
Nor star aloft a watch to keep,
The tar can be gay as landsmen in day,
With a cheering glass and a smiling lass.
While boon the wind blows,
And smooth the tide flows,
And the ship steady goes,
Still steady, steady, steady,
Through the boundless deep.
In turn he mounts the chilly deck;
But watch relieved, his Susan's charms
All thoughts but those of pleasure check.
Come night's deep noon, and ne'er a moon,
Nor star aloft a watch to keep,
The tar can be gay as landsmen in day,
With a cheering glass and a smiling lass.
While boon the wind blows,
And smooth the tide flows,
And the ship steady goes,
Still steady, steady, steady,
Through the boundless deep.