Here’s to the heroes of Seventy-six.
Here’s to the soldiers who battled the foe,
And death, death to treason as you all know,
Here’s to the sailors, those noble jack tars,
So nobly they fought for the stripes and the stars.
Here’s to the boys who fell in the strife,
To save us a nation each gave his own life;
Here’s to the sailors who bleach on the surf,
Here’s to the soldiers who sleep ’neath the turf.
Here’s to our Lincoln—although he is dead,