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Show The Hero in Blue I Deillcntod to Hlbenilnn miles, Seventh . Nntlonal Ounrd, Chic- -o, Illinois, Oh, Sammy, you're a iU Jy. and your carbine's kinder hnnay, From tho Hands of Arizona have you mxhnyed to the fight: From the stubhorn. no' Id South you havo fnced the cannon's mouth You'ro n bronzed, noetic foeman nnd ' you nwlne n slroku ot mlRht. You're the lad that's built to stay thro' : the fearful, bloody fray. You never flinch at peril where the thunderlnc ennnons roar, I Some white nimed girl nt home calls across the sundering foam. And brave Sammy comes a-trooplnp back, victorious ns of yore. REFRAIN. Oh "Stars nd Stripes" so plucky, from the blue ernes or Kentucky, You're the mainstay of thu nation ana' the champion of tho ince. Oh you lovo tho smell of powder and bis ennnona growling louder. The hoarse neighing of the horses ns they're plunKlnjr In the chnse. Don't you hear the buttles blowing, when the foe their teeth nre showing? And the mpasured rolling of the di urns n-throhlitng ns In pain. Dlue hrlatllntr bayonets glooming nnd tho shot nnd slipll nro screaming: While Old (llory's hallowed binner fctreams victorious o'er tho slnlnl From tho blue grnR.s of Kentucky, from the dnrk nnd bloody ground. From the prnlrlea of Nobrasku whero tho I antelopes abound. j From tho sunny hIo.ipi of Georgia nnl the locky hills of Maine: They havo rallied to our banner whero tho blistering- bullets rain, B You hnvo got to show Mlzzourn and the huls from County l'lke, They nro kinder slouchy fellows when H they eashny on a strike. 1 And tho cowboys of Wyoming, they art- M rustling to tho fray. H From thu plains of hlt-rng Kanau and Hj the peaks of Monterey! HI Fierce Hud yard Kipling brngs of Tommy SB Atkins bold. B He's the strapping red coat soldier or H the queen. B Dut of "Sardmy Starsandstrlpes" he ban B not told, For "Htarsandstrlpes" just sauntered H on the scene. H The boli' Yankee soldier boy Mghta In H Un le bum's employ, H lie's tho rerklers. brave rough rider H with Roosevelt In command. R Ho hnd the rlnht of way with stout Diwty in the fray, H And ho smashed the Spanish squadron and he droo them from tho land. From the plains of Tlllnoy comes the , K itrupp'rir solnler boy, V B lie shamblos kinder sluuchy, Just an ,K awkward ns cun be; B I'o r.amvt knlitht Is Sam, yet ho gambols H like n htnib H Ills llulc gun's n beauty and sho barks H with tlenillsh glee, B From the Kaut unto the West he has H mK.7 stood the test, R Ho never eekf a quarrel but ho nl- wayn l U1k his crnunl, B When tno t-lzzllng shot and shell atlnga you like a Hiiro of hell, B Why Dummy Is a handy chap to Idly saunter mundl JAMICS' 13. KIN SKI. LA. B Chicago. fll |