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 TIE SAUCY LITTLE TDRTL 
 
 AIR — "Coming through the Rye." 
 
 Down on Mississippi river, 
 
 The other day, 
 Three ships with cannon mounted, 
 
 In pride they lay. 
 Boasting of their wrrlike^prowess, 
 
 Pretty ships of war, 
 Lying still the stream i blockading, 
 
 Naught their peace did mar. 
 
 In those waters lived^a^Turtle, 
 
 A saucy little dear, 
 Dressed in steel from top to bottom, 
 
 Beneath her was a spear. 
 Now this saucy little Turtle, 
 
 Dressed in fine array, 
 With fourteen guns (irmly mounted, 
 
 To keep her foes away. 
 
 Got up steam to pay a visit, 
 
 To this powerful tribe, 
 She first made at the big ship Preble, 
 
 Smashed in all her side. 
 Down;went ship and all its rigging, 
 
 In the angry sea, 
 Captain, crew, and all the soldiers, 
 
 Now cease to be. 
 
 Thc.crew of the' other two big monsters, 
 
 Filled with affright, 
 Poured their vollies on the Turtle, 
 
 With all thehynight. 
 No e fleet at all upon her, 
 
 Did tbcir bullets take, 
 She chased them both in shallow water, 
 
 Now, for the shoie they make. 
 
 Success to brave old Captain Ilollins, 
 Whose Turtle fought so well. 
 
 This brave exploit by Maryland's son, 
 All history will tell. 
 
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