"Cornwallis led a country dance;
The like was never seen, sir;
Much retrograde, and much advance,
And all with General Greene, sir.
They rambled up and rambled down.
Joined bands, and off they ran, sir;
Our General Greene to old Charlestown,
And the earl to Wilmington, sir. *
There was Greene in the South; you must know him—
Whom some called a "Hickory Quaker;"