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RNYG.780.041
29 Jan 1780:34 (348)
Mr. Rivington, The inclosed song was transposed by a
refugee, and intended for the Loyalists out of the lines,
whilst d'Estaing was in Georgia; the reason of your not
having it at that time, was owing to its being mislaid. If
you think proper to insert it in your paper, you'll oblige
one of your constant readers, who begs leave to subscribe
himself a Loyalist. Jan. 27, 1780.
Tune of the Cut-Purse:
The old English cause knocks at every man's door,
And bids him stand up for religion and right;
It addresses the rich, as well as the poor,
And for liberty, bids them like Englishmen fight;
And suffer no wrong
From a Rebel throng;
Who if they're not quell'd will enslave us 'ere long:
Most bravely then let us our liberty prize,
Nor suffer the Congress to blind all our eyes:
Or each rebel cut-purse, will soon give us law,
For they are as bad as a Tyler or Straw.
. . . [3 more verses of 11 lines each]
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