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We live in hard and stirring times

Too sad for mirth, too rough for rhymes;

For songs of peace have lost their chimes

And that’s what’s the matter!

The men we held as brothers true

Have turn’s into a rebel crew;

So now we have to put them thro'

And that’s what’s the matter!

That’s what’s the matter

The rebels have to scatter;

We’ll make them flee

By land and sea

And that’s what’s the matter!

Oh! yes, we thought our neighbors true

Indulg’d them as their mothers do;

Thy storm’d our bright Red, White and Blue

And that’s what’s the matter!

We’ll never give up what we gain

For now we know we must maintain

Our Laws and Rights with might and main;

And that’s what’s the matter!

That’s what’s the matter

The rebels have to scatter;

We’ll make them flee

By land and sea

And that’s what’s the matter!

The rebels thought we would divide

And Democrats would take their side;

They then would let the Union slide

And that’s what’s the matter!

But, when the war had once begun

All party feeling soon was gone;

We join’d as brothers, ev’ry one!

And that’s what’s the matter!

That’s what’s the matter

The rebels have to scatter;

We’ll make them flee

By land and sea

And that’s what’s the matter!

The Merrimac, with heavy sway

Had made our Fleet an easy prey

The Monitor got in the way

And that’s what’s the matter!

So health to Captain Ericsson

I cannot tell all he has done

I’d never stop when once begun

And that’s what’s the matter!

That’s what’s the matter

The rebels have to scatter;

We’ll make them flee

By land and sea

And that’s what’s the matter!

We’ve heard of Gen’ral Beauregard

And thought he’d fight us long and hard;

But he has play’d out his last card

And that’s what’s the matter!

So what’s the use to fret and pout

We soon will hear the people shout

Secession dodge is all play’d out!

And that’s what’s the matter!

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