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The BRITISH GRENADIERS.

Some talk of Alexander,
 and some of Hercules,
Of Hector and Lysander,
 and such great men as these;
But all the world acknowledges,
 true valour best appears.
With a tow, row, row, row, row, row,
 brave British Grenadiers

These ancients of antiquity,
 ne'er saw a cannon ball;
Nor knew the force of powder,
 to stay their foes with all:
But braver boys have known its
 and banish'd all their fears,
For a tow, row, row, row, row, row,
 brave British Grenadeers.

When we receive the orders,
 to storm their palisadoes;
Our leaders march with fuzees,
 and we with hand granadoes,
We toss them from the glacis,
 amongst our en'mies ears,
With a tow, row, row, row, row, row,
 brave British Grenadiers.

Then Jove the God of thunder,
 and Mars the God of war;