Whilst here I relate of the Durham youths’ fame,
Who chearful appear’d when these new tidings came,
That to Barnardcastle they must march away,
Embody’d to be, without stop or delay.
What tho’ some cowards have betook them to flight,
And for their king and country scorn for to fight,
Yet we Durham boys, who jovial appear,
Right honest we’ll be, and we’ll banish all fear,
When head of the front, how martial we see
Our Colonel so brave, so gallant, and free.