Baltimore Hymn.

TUNE --- "Marseilles Hymn."
Song performed by: Chad Sheridan (vocals) and Tara Dirst (banjo). Recording engineer: Matt Dotson.

FRIENDS of Reform, arise in power,
Hurl! Hurl! To earth fair freedom's foes;
A voice from seventy-six, this hour,
Still warns you of impending woes:
Can freemen silently, in wonder,
Behold a mercenary band,
Give freedom's high and holy land,
To peculation and to plunder!

Arise! Arise! Ye wise!
To make your country blest:
Be firm, be firm, the watchword still,
The Hero of the West.

See, see, how tyrants triumph o'er us,
In all the pomp of England's pride;
A ruin'd land is now before us,
And threat'ning war on every side;
And shall we tamely hear the story
Of wrongs and wretchedness, in store
For millions on Columbia's shore,
And of Columbia's fallen glory?

Arise! Arise! Ye wise!

With promises of golden treasures,
Still, still, they seek to win the free;
Believe not in their heartless measures,
But strike along for liberty:
Will you become the tools of tyrants,
Who seek to sink the laborer low,
And blast him with a single blow,
While they remain the proud aspirants?

Arise! Arise! Ye wise!

ye sons of freedom, Oh! awaken,
nor longer be a slave to those,
who have your country's cause forsaken,
and ever have been freedom's foes:
will ye behold a sinking nation,
her commerce crush'd, her credit gone,
her manufacturers undone,
and pamper tyrants in their station?

Arise! Arise! Ye wise!