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Our flag and our songs; a brief story of the origin and life of the United States flag (1917)

Ogden, Henry Alexander, 1856-1936 · New York, E.J. Clode · leaf 38

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dles,And some had ribbons red as blood,All bound around their middles. — Cho. The troopers too, would gallop up.And fire right in our faces;It scared me almost half to deathTo see them run such races. — Cho. Uncle Sam came there to change Some pancakes and some onions. For lasses cakes to carry… … AUTHOR UNKNOWN THE dames of France are fond and free,And Flemish lips are willing,And soft the maids of Italy,And Spanish eyes are thrilling;Still though I bask beneath their smile,Their charms they fail to bind me.And my heart falls back to Erins Isle,To the girl I left behind me. For shes as fair…

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