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Is there a Laura figure?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98VlSOZmEyE
Secord's Warning,
©1991 Tanglefoot Media, by Joe Grant and Steve Ritchie
Come all ye brave young soldier lads, with your strong and manly bearing.
I'll tell you a tale of a women brave, and her deed of honest daring.
Laura Secord was American born, in the state of Massachusetts,
But she made her home in Canada and proved so faithful to us.
Chorus:
There's American guns and five hundred men,
So the warning must be given.
Laura Ingersoll Secord is the stalwart heart,
Who braved the heat, and the flies and the swamp,
To warn Colonel FitzGibbon.
Soldiers pounding at the door, they've come from across the boarder.
American officers march inside, it's food and drink they order.
In comfort they have dined and drunk, their own success they've toasted,
But they pay no heed to the woman who hears their plan so widely boasted.
Chorus
"Oh! James I've overheard it all, a surprise attack their making.
FitzGibbon they intend to smash, his men for prisoners taking.
But James, a warning never you'll take, with your wounded knee and shoulder.
I myself must carry it past the sentries and the soldiers."
Chorus
It's an all day tramp to the British camp, by way of Shipman's Corners.
With snakes and flies, and sweat in her eyes, there is no respite for her.
She's lost her shoes in the muck of the bog, her feet are torn and blistered,
But there's many a soldier lad to be spared, if the message be delivered.
Chorus
So all you Yankee soldier lads who dare to cross our boarder,
Thinking to save us from ourselves, disturbing British order,
There's women and men, Canadians all of every rank and station,
To stand on guard and keep us free, from Yankee domination!
Chorus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98VlSOZmEyE
Secord's Warning,
©1991 Tanglefoot Media, by Joe Grant and Steve Ritchie
Come all ye brave young soldier lads, with your strong and manly bearing.
I'll tell you a tale of a women brave, and her deed of honest daring.
Laura Secord was American born, in the state of Massachusetts,
But she made her home in Canada and proved so faithful to us.
Chorus:
There's American guns and five hundred men,
So the warning must be given.
Laura Ingersoll Secord is the stalwart heart,
Who braved the heat, and the flies and the swamp,
To warn Colonel FitzGibbon.
Soldiers pounding at the door, they've come from across the boarder.
American officers march inside, it's food and drink they order.
In comfort they have dined and drunk, their own success they've toasted,
But they pay no heed to the woman who hears their plan so widely boasted.
Chorus
"Oh! James I've overheard it all, a surprise attack their making.
FitzGibbon they intend to smash, his men for prisoners taking.
But James, a warning never you'll take, with your wounded knee and shoulder.
I myself must carry it past the sentries and the soldiers."
Chorus
It's an all day tramp to the British camp, by way of Shipman's Corners.
With snakes and flies, and sweat in her eyes, there is no respite for her.
She's lost her shoes in the muck of the bog, her feet are torn and blistered,
But there's many a soldier lad to be spared, if the message be delivered.
Chorus
So all you Yankee soldier lads who dare to cross our boarder,
Thinking to save us from ourselves, disturbing British order,
There's women and men, Canadians all of every rank and station,
To stand on guard and keep us free, from Yankee domination!
Chorus