By ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM.
Come, brothers! rally for the right!The bravest of the braveSends forth her ringing battle-cryBeside the Atlantic wave!She leads the way in honor's path;Come brothers, near and far,Come rally round the Bonnie Blue FlagThat bears a single star!We've borne the Yankee trickery,The Yankee gibe and sneer,Till Yankee insolence and prideKnow neither shame nor fear;But ready now with shot and steelTheir brazen front to mar,We hoist aloft the Bonnie Blue FlagThat bears a single star.Now Georgia marches to the front,And close beside her comeHer sisters by the Mexique Sea,With pealing trump and drum;Till answering back from hill and glenThe rallying cry afar,A Nation hoists the Bonnie Blue FlagThat bears a single star!By every stone in Charleston Bay,By each beleaguered town,We swear to rest not, night nor day,But hunt the tyrants down!Till bathed in valor's holy bloodThe gazing world afarShall greet with shouts the Bonnie Blue FlagThat bears the cross and star!
Come, brothers! rally for the right!The bravest of the braveSends forth her ringing battle-cryBeside the Atlantic wave!She leads the way in honor's path;Come brothers, near and far,Come rally round the Bonnie Blue FlagThat bears a single star!
We've borne the Yankee trickery,The Yankee gibe and sneer,Till Yankee insolence and prideKnow neither shame nor fear;But ready now with shot and steelTheir brazen front to mar,We hoist aloft the Bonnie Blue FlagThat bears a single star.
Now Georgia marches to the front,And close beside her comeHer sisters by the Mexique Sea,With pealing trump and drum;Till answering back from hill and glenThe rallying cry afar,A Nation hoists the Bonnie Blue FlagThat bears a single star!
By every stone in Charleston Bay,By each beleaguered town,We swear to rest not, night nor day,But hunt the tyrants down!Till bathed in valor's holy bloodThe gazing world afarShall greet with shouts the Bonnie Blue FlagThat bears the cross and star!
[Southern.]