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Auner’s Printing Office, N. E. Cor 11th and Market, Philadelphia.

Our Beautiful Flag: Or, The Bonnie Red, White And Blue,

Come rally, brothers, rally, around the stripes and stars,
Fighting the odious rebel flag, that flaunts its triple bars;
A banner foul, dishonored, no emblem for the free,
For this the bonnie red, white and blue for evermore must be.

CHORUS.—Hurrah! Hurrah! For a nation’s rights, hurrah!
They shall not harm our beautiful flag, nor quench a single star!
Hurrah! Hurrah! For a nation’s rights, hurrah!
They shall not harm our beautiful flag, nor quench a single star!

We’re all a band of brothers, we mourn this civil strife,
Still will we smite the rebel hand, that seeks our nation’s life;
O men of sunny Georgia! brave hearts of Tennessee!
Ye Texas rovers! Raise again, the banner of the free!

CHORUS.—Hurrah! Hurrah! &c.

We never wished to harm you, we’ll welcome you again,
When you tear down the rebel flag, as brothers and as men;
When Sumter’s walls were battered, what could we, freemen, do,
But rally round our beautiful flag, of red, white and blue.

CHORUS.—Hurrah! Hurrah! &c.

But down with South Carolina, that haughty, treacherous State!
Humble her tyrants in the dust, forever ignobly great;
But up with the Southern poor man! strike off the captive’s chain!
And rally round the starry flag, to sing in loud refrain.

CHORUS—Hurrah! Hurrah! &c.

Oh no, the “bonnie blue flag,” with one white ghastly star,
Never shall float before our ranks, to lead the brave afar;
But blend the hue of sunset, the bonnie red, white and blue,
Shall fire our souls with patriotic zeal, with hope and courage true.

CHORUS—Hurrah! Hurrah! &c.

OLIVER, DITSON & CO, MUSIC PUBLISHERS, No. 277 Washington Street, Boston.

A. W. Auner , Song Publisher, N. E. Cor. 11th and Market Philada.