It’s me who was Hunneman’s foreman of hose:
Ev’ry feller we mustered was over six feet
And the gang that we brought to a fireman’s
meet
They never was licked and they never was
downed,
And a crowd up against us would likely get
drowned.
Ev’ry man in the forty was six feet and more
And their shirts was the reddest that ever men