Chester Volunteers
Tune—There’s na Luck about the House.
And are ye sure the tale is true?
Again the news relate,
That Chester is to raise a corps
To fight for king and state.
Then let us fill a bumper full,
To Scarborough’s noble thane,
Who under his protection has
The men of Chester ta’en.
If Chester men are firm and true,
And by each other stand,
No foreign foe can venture then
To stain our native land.
But if they should assail our coast,
Compell’d by want and need,
When Chester banners are display’d,
They’ll fly from hence with speed.
Then let us fill, &c.
In former times our Chester youths
Their country’s foes expell’d;
Whose conquering monarch, in those days,
The crowns of Europe held:
Should then the sons of France pretend
With Chester Sons to vie,
If they suppose they’re better men,
E’en let them come and try.
Then let us fill, &c.
The king our noble father is,
The queen our mother dear;
The prince’s brothers soldiers are,
Whom we shall here revere:
Them we’ll defend with might and main,
Against all sorts of foes;
Should they command to fight like men,
Or aim their treacherous blows.
Then let us fill, &c.