IRON-CLAD JACK,

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 57, 31 July 1862, Page 3

IRON-CLAD JACK,

A SKA-SONG OK TIIK FCTUKK. Go, patter to soldiers and swabs not at sea ’Bout danger and fear and tlie like, A full head of steam and good iron ship give me. And ’taint to three-deckers I ’ll strike ! [smite, Though such shot on our iron sides smack, smash and As would shiver a frigate of wood, [light, What of that? sheathed in plate we'll right gallantly Till our foes for the lishes ho food. In armor cased for’ard, amidships, ahaft, In our sides neither crevice nor crack, All safely wo steam in our hlacksmith-huilt craft: Naught to fear now has Iron-clad Jack. I said to my Poll, for you see sho would cry When last we were ordered to sea. “What’s the good, Po'.i.. of sniv’ling, and piping your eye, When your Jack is as snug as can he ? Can't you see how weTo armed ; iron plates over all; _ Shot-aud-shell-proof from stern-post to stem ? Not a wan of us now by a broadside can fall: And for small arms, we’ve no fear of them. With sheathing well shielded both for’ard and aft. On the furnace fresh fuel wo siaek, Then running stem on sink the enemy's craft. While in safety sits Iron-clad Jack,” Why, I heard our ship’s blacksmith explaining one night That the strength of our sheathing was sneh That, shiver my rivets! says he, when we light, Not a shot can our timbers ere toueb. Should a foe heave in sight, to our guns wo may fly, Nov of splinter nor shot feel a dread: Pound away as he will, boys, we hi never say die 1 For we Te proof ’gainst steel, iron, and lead. Wo ’vo no woodwork to riddle, alow or aloft, No canvas to shift or to tack ; Not an inch in the ship that is shaky or soft, Shot-and-ahell-proof is Iron-clad Jack, —Puiicft.