Tune—“Hail, Columbia.”
Awake! ye sons of freedom, rise!
Can ye not hear your country’s cries?
Were ye but told that foes invade,
That rifles flash and deadly blade
Seek to destroy her glorious peace,
How swift your arms to bring release!
Strengthen your arms! lest dangers come
More fearful than the victim’s doom;
Lest faction riot through our land,