Freedom defends, and the land where it grew—
We’re free, aloft and alow!
Bearing down is a foe in regal pride,
Defiance floating at each masthead;
One’s a wreck, and she bears that floats alongside
The Stars and Stripes, to victory wed.
For a Yankee ship and a Yankee crew,
Tally hi ho, you know,
Ne’er strikes to a foe while the sky is blue
Or a tar’s aloft or alow.”