Hillsdale Whig Standard

Rough and Ready Song.
AIR-"Alabama Joe."
We'll sing a song to suit the times,
With voices bold and steady:
And cheerily we'll tell in rhymes.
Of good old Rough and Ready.
His foes may slander as they can,
And bluster at his manners-
Who cares a fig? he's just the man
To lead the Yankee banner
Then Rough and Ready let it ring
And set the bells a chiming
Where'er we go we're bound to sing
His praises in our rhyming.
In Florida he gained a name
That won our admiration.
And loudly has his gallant fame
Been echoed through our nation
There's not a heart in all the land.
That beats not true and steady.
For the Hero of the Rio Grande
Our gallant Rough and Ready.
Then Rough and Ready. &c. &c..
At Monterey he showed the world,
That Yankees ne'er are daunted,
The flag of freedom he unfurled,
And on the towers planted;
And there it waves in triumph high,
'Mid freemen bold and steady,
A monument to every eye,
Of old gallant Rough and Ready.
Then Rough and Ready, &c. &c..
Old Zack's the boy for Santa Anna,
Ampudia or Arista,
And long 'twill be ere they forgot
The field of Buena Vista;
Though legions of the foeman swarm,
Against our brave defenders,
Old Rough and Ready, they will find,
The man who ne'er surrenders,
Then Rough and Ready, &c. &c..