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[There were countless skirmishes on the Great Lakes between ships and boats of
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all makes and sizes during the War of 1812-14. "Well", Stan said, "we won the
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damned war but from some of the accounts you'd really have to wonder how!"]
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The clothes men wear do give them airs, the fellows do compare.
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A colonel's regimentals shine, and women call them fair.
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I am Alexander MacIntosh, a nephew to the Laird
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And I do distain men who are vain, the men with powdered hair.
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I command the Nancy Schooner from the Moy on Lake St. Claire.
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On the third day of October, boys, I did set sail from there.
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To the garrison at Amherstburg I quickly would repair
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With Captain Maxwell and his wife and kids and powdered hair.
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Aboard the Nancy
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In regimentals bright.
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Aboard the Nancy
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With all his pomp and bluster there, aboard the Nancy-o.
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Below the St. Clair rapids I sent scouts unto the shore
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To ask a friendly Whyandot to say what lay before.
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"Amherstburg has fallen, with the same for you in store!
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And militia sent to take you there, fifty horse or more."
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Up spoke Captain Maxwell then, "Surrender, now, I say!
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Give them your Nancy schooner and make off without delay!
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Set me ashore, I do implore. I will not die this way!"
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Says I, "You go, or get below, for I'll be on my way!"
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Aboard the Nancy!
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"Surrender, Hell!" I say.
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Aboard the Nancy
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"It's back to Mackinac I'll fight, aboard the Nancy-o."
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Well up comes Colonel Beaubien, then, who shouts as he comes near.
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"Surrender up your schooner and I swear you've naught to fear.
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We've got your Captain Maxwell, sir, so spare yourself his tears."
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Says I, "I'll not but send you shot to buzz about your ears."
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Well, they fired as we hove anchor, boys, and we got under way,
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But scarce a dozen broadsides, boys, the Nancy they did pay
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Before the business sickened them. They bravely ran away.
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All sail we made, and reached the Lake before the close of day.
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Aboard the Nancy!
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We sent them shot and cheers.
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Aboard the Nancy!
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We watched them running through the trees, aboard the Nancy-o.
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Oh, military gentlemen, they bluster, roar and pray.
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Nine sailors and the Nancy, boys, made fifty run away.
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The powder in their hair that day was powder sent their way
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By poor and ragged sailor men, who swore that they would stay.
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Aboard the Nancy!
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Six pence and found a day
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Aboard the Nancy!
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No uniforms for men to scorn, aboard the Nancy-o.
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