Adieu for a while to the town…

Adieu for a while to the town and its trade Adieu to the meadows and rake, Our country my boys calls aloud for our aid, And shall we that country forsake.

It never was known, that true hearts like our own From hardships or hazards wou'd flinch, Let our foes then unite, we will shew them in fight, What Briton's can do at a pinch.

A slave may he be who will not agree, To join with his neighbour and sing, That the brave and the free such Britons are we Live but for their Country and King.