What if the new San Francisco should sail
To Chilian waters away,
With the Boston and Yorktown afar in the east,
'Nd the Lancaster off in Bombay;
'Nd the big Philadelphia--s'posin' she wuz
A-loadin' with tea in Japan,
With the Concord and Bennington flyin' so gay
Their colors around Hindostan;
'Nd s'posin' the Charleston wuz in Bering Sea,
With the Newark in Pamlico Sound,
'Nd the Miantonomah's big bilers should bust,
'Nd the Baltimore run hard aground;
Then s'posin' we got in a fight right away
With Chili or even Peru,
'Nd England should work the shell game on New
York,
Say--what in the deuce would we do?
