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PEP.776.024
30 Mar 1776:1612, 1621 (2/186)
The Ministry have boasted much of their regular, their
disciplined troops, which they fancied capable of beating
all the irregulars in the world. One would wonder how men
of any attention to what has passed, could deceive
themselves into such an opinion, when so many facts, within
the memory of men not very old, evince the contrary.
The following Yanky song gives us a pretty little collection
of those facts. . .
THE KING'S OWN REGULARS, AND THEIR TRIUMPH OVER THE
IRREGULARS.
A New Song.
To the tune of An Old Courtier of the Queen's, and the
Queen's Old Courtier. Which is a kind of recitativo, like
the chaunting of those psalms in cathedrals.
Since you all will have singing, and won't be said nay,
I cannot refuse, when you so beg and pray;
So I'll sing you a song, -- as a body may say,
'Tis of the King's Regulars, who ne'er run away.
O the old soldiers of the King, and the King's own Regulars.
. . . [15 verses with burden, "O the old Soldiers, &c."
follow]
[Verses mention Prestonpans, Falkirk, Monongahela, Fort
George, Oswego, Ticonderoga, Louisburgh, Lexington. The
American's practice of hiding and firing instead of standing
and firing is also ridiculed]
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