Fleetwood, Strickland, and Reform Triumphant
For Fleetwood and Strickland hurrah!
Hurrah, for the Radicals true,
Now the polling is done, and the election is won
By the Banners of Green and Sky-blue;
The Tories may now go and mourn,
No longer they’ll carry the sway,
For the brave Preston lads, the Whigs and the Rads,
Have torn all their laurels away.
For the Preston Reformers hurrah,
A glorious struggle they’ve made,
To pull tyranny down, and victory crown
The friends of Reform and Free Trade;
No longer shall liberty’s sons,
Crouch down to the bigotted few;
Now the election is won Reform marches on,
In spite of what Tories can do.
So hurrah for the Black Fleet, hurrah!
For the spinners and weavers also,
Now the banners shall wave, and the music shall play,
And our members in triumph shall go;
The faction that dared to oppose,
Before the voice of the people does fly;
So the victors shall sing till the welkin does ring,
With voices that reach to the sky.
To the land that we live in hurrah!
Where the banner of freedom’s unfurl’d,
May it soon have to wave o’er the last tyrant’s grave,
And liberty reign o’er the world;
The children that yet are unborn,
Shall sing of the deeds we have done,
How their fathers so brave would no longer be slaves,
But fought till the battle was won.