88 TWO NAVAL SONGS. 



But they soon, every one, just flinched from the gun, 



Which at first they thought to use so neat and handy, O ! 



Brave Broke he waved his sword, crying " Now, my lads, let's board, 



•• And we'll stop their playing Yankee doodle dandy, O I" 



He scarce had said the word, when they all jump'd on board, 

 And they hauled down the ensign neat and handy, O ! 

 Notwithstanding all their brag, the glorious British flag 

 At the Yankees' mizzen-peak it looked the dandy, O ! 



Then here's to all true blue, both oflicers and crew. 

 Who tamed the Yankees' courage neat and handy, 1 

 And may it ever prove in battle, as in love, 

 The true British sailor is the dandy, O ! 



Now the interesting fact about all this seems to be that 

 eight or nine months before the capture of the Chesapeake 

 a song with the same peculiar jig movement had been sung 

 in our theatres and on our streets to an air known at that 

 day as " The Landlady of France " — a song inspired by 

 the victory of Hull in the Constitution, August 19, 1812, 

 over the ill-fated frigate Guerriere and, when these verses 

 are compared with those above printed, they are at once 

 perceived to be the original from which the Harrow School 

 Song is parodied, so that in this instance, at least, if in no 

 other, we may claim to have furnished that sceva noverca 

 the mother country, with the motif of a British War Song. 



William Dunlap's " Yankee Chronology," a spirited mu- 

 sical drama, was produced at the Park Theatre in New 

 York, September 9, 1812 (Ireland's New York Stage, Vol. 

 I, p. 288) and Mr. Brander Matthews thinks that may be 

 the origin of these verses. An intelligent veteran of the 

 war of 1812, present at the unveiling of the Perry Statue 

 at Cleveland on Lake Erie, in 1860, told the historian 

 Lossing that he heard them sung at the Park Theatre in 

 New York early in the fall of 1812, and that they were 

 much heard at public meetings, in bar rooms, in work 

 shops, and in the streets of the city. They are as follows : 



