Classic Poem

If it's men for your ships, if it's men for your shore,
If it's men for your guns on the borders,
If it's guards for your firesides, or fighters for war,
We are ready and waiting your orders.
We will lay down the ax, we will hang up the saw,
We will come from the rafts on the river;
And we'll fight for the land and we'll fight for the law
And the Star Spangled Banner forever!

If it's men for the sea we have river-rats here
Who are kings of the drive and the water;
If it's men for the line we have swampers to cheer
All the louder when matters get hotter.
If it's over the sea you would have us to go,
There to conquer the foe our endeavor,
We are ready — and only one ditty we know:
That's the Star Spangled Banner forever!

We have handled a saw, we can handle a gun;
We have made us a trail through the timber,
And we'll swamp you a road to a place in the sun,
For our arms and our axes are limber.
The man in the town is a fancier guy,
The man in the town may be clever;
But we're ready to fight and we're ready to die
For the Star Spangled Banner forever!