Secord’s Warning

By Tanglefoot

On Captured Alive

Released on 2003

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[Spoken] So here they are:

The fantastic!

The wonderful!

Tanglefoot!

Everybody!

Come all you brave young soldier lads with your strong and manly bearing

I'll tell you a tale of a woman bold and her deed of honest daring

Laura Secord was American born in the state of Massachusettes

But she made her home in Canada and proved so faithful to us

There's American guns and 500 men so the warning must be given

And Laura Ingersoll Secord was a stalwart heart to brave the heat and the flies and the swamp to warn Colonel FitzGibbon

There's soldiers pounding at the door and they come from across the border

American officers march inside, it's food and drink they've ordered

In comfort they have dined and drunk their own success they've toasted

But they pay no heed to the woman who hears their plan, so idly boasted

There's American guns and 500 men so the warning must be given

And Laura Ingersoll Secord was a stalwart heart to brave the heat and the flies and the swamp to warn Colonel FitzGibbon

Oh James I've overheard it all a surprise attack they're making

FitzGibbon they intend to smash, his men for prisoners taking

And James a warning never you'll take with your wounded knee and shoulder

I myself must carry it past the sentries and the soldiers

There's American guns and 500 men so the warning must be given

And Laura Ingersoll Secord was a stalwart heart to brave the heat and the flies and the swamp to warn Colonel FitzGibbon

It's an all-day tramp to the British camp by way of Shipman's Corners

There's snakes and flies and sweat in her eyes, there is no respite for her

She's lost her shoes in the muck of the bog, her feet are torn and blistered

But there's many a soldier lad to be spared of the message they've delivered

There's American guns and 500 men so the warning must be given

And Laura Ingersoll Secord was a stalwart heart to brave the heat and the flies and the swamp to warn Colonel FitzGibbon

So all you Yankee soldier lads who dare to cross our border

Thinking to save us from ourselves, usurping british order

There's women and men, Canadians all of every rank and station

To stand on guard and keep us free from Yankee domination

(Woo!)

There's American guns and 500 men so the warning must be given

And Laura Ingersoll Secord was a stalwart heart to brave the heat and the flies and the swamp to warn Colonel FitzGibbon

And Laura Ingersoll Secord was a stalwart heart to

Brave

The heat

And the flies

And the swamp

To

Warn

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Nel

Fitz-

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