http://www.wordnik.com/lists/tunie-secords-warning.xml By Tanglefoot. <br /> <br />"Secord's Warning" <br />by Joe Grant and Steve Ritchie <br /> <br />Come all you <a href="/words/brave">brave</a> young <a href="/words/soldier">soldier</a> <a href="/words/lads">lads</a> <br />With your strong and <a href="/words/manly">manly</a> bearing <br />I'll tell you a tale of a woman <a href="/words/bold">bold</a> <br />And her deed of <a href="/words/honest">honest</a> <a href="/words/daring">daring</a> <br />Laura Secord was <a href="/words/American-born">American-born</a> <br />In the state of <a href="/words/Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a> <br />But she made her home in <a href="/words/Canada">Canada</a> <br />And proved so <a href="/words/faithful">faithful</a> to us <br /> <br />{Chorus} <br />There's <a href="/words/American">American</a> <a href="/words/guns">guns</a> and <a href="/words/five hundred">five hundred</a> men <br />So the <a href="/words/warning">warning</a> must be given <br />And Laura Ingersoll Secord was the <a href="/words/stalwart">stalwart</a> <a href="/words/heart">heart</a> <br />Who braved the <a href="/words/heat">heat</a> and the <a href="/words/flies">flies</a> and the <a href="/words/swamp">swamp</a> <br />To <a href="/words/warn">warn</a> Colonel Fitzgibbon <br /> <br />There's soldiers <a href="/words/pounding">pounding</a> at the door <br />And they come from across the <a href="/words/border">border</a> <br />American <a href="/words/officers">officers</a> march inside <br />It's food and drink they've <a href="/words/ordered">ordered</a> <br />In comfort they have dined and drunk <br />Their own <a href="/words/success">success</a> they've <a href="/words/toasted">toasted</a> <br />But they pay no <a href="/words/heed">heed</a> to the woman who hears <br />Their plan so <a href="/words/idly">idly</a> <a href="/words/boasted">boasted</a> <br /> <br />{Chorus} <br /> <br />"Oh, James I've <a href="/words/overheard">overheard</a> it all <br />A <a href="/words/surprise">surprise</a> <a href="/words/attack ">attack </a>they're making <br />Fitzgibbon they intend to <a href="/words/smash">smash</a> <br />His men for <a href="/words/prisoners">prisoners</a> taking <br />And James a warning <a href="/words/never">never</a> you'll take <br />With your <a href="/words/wounded">wounded</a> knee and shoulder <br />I <a href="/words/myself">myself</a> must carry it past <br />The <a href="/words/sentries">sentries</a> and the soldiers." <br /> <br />{Chorus} <br /> <br />It's an all-day <a href="/words/tramp">tramp</a> to the <a href="/words/British">British</a> camp <br />By way of Shipman's Corners <br />There're <a href="/words/snakes">snakes</a> and flies and <a href="/words/sweat">sweat</a> in her eyes <br />There is no <a href="/words/respite">respite</a> for her <br />She's lost her shoes in the <a href="/words/muck">muck</a> of the <a href="/words/bog">bog</a> <br />Her feet are <a href="/words/torn">torn</a> and <a href="/words/blistered">blistered</a> <br />But there's many a soldier lad to be <a href="/words/spared">spared</a> <br />If the <a href="/words/message">message</a> be <a href="/words/delivered">delivered</a> <br /> <br />{Chorus} <br /> <br />So all you <a href="/words/Yankee">Yankee</a> soldier lads <br />Who <a href="/words/dare">dare</a> to cross our border <br />Thinking to <a href="/words/save">save</a> us from ourselves <br /><a href="/words/Usurping">Usurping</a> British order <br />There's women and men, <a href="/words/Canadians">Canadians</a> all, <br />Of every rank and <a href="/words/station">station</a> <br />To <a href="/words/stand">stand</a> on <a href="/words/guard">guard</a> and keep us <a href="/words/free">free</a> <br />From Yankee <a href="/words/domination">domination</a> <br /> <br />{Chorus} <br />There's American guns and 500 men <br />So the warning must be given <br />And Laura Ingersoll Secord was the stalwart heart <br />Who braved the heat and the 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