We’d show ’em some play for the Island.
We’d fight for our right to the Island;
We’d give them enough of the Island;
Invaders should just—bite once at the dust,
But not a bit more of the Island.
Thomas Dibdin.
A somewhat different arrangement of this song appeared in The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1800, Volume IV. It contained several additional verses relating to the war with France, and Lord Nelson’s victories.
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