[
  {
    "title": "39. Ballad on the American War",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "WHEN Guilford good our pilot stood",
      "  An’ did our hellim thraw, man,",
      "Ae night, at tea, began a plea,",
      "  Within America, man:",
      "Then up they gat the maskin-pat,",
      "  And in the sea did jaw, man;",
      "An’ did nae less, in full congress,",
      "  Than quite refuse our law, man.",
      "",
      "",
      "Then thro’ the lakes Montgomery takes,",
      "  I wat he was na slaw, man;",
      "Down Lowrie’s Burn he took a turn,",
      "  And Carleton did ca’, man:",
      "But yet, whatreck, he, at Quebec,",
      "  Montgomery-like did fa’, man,",
      "Wi’ sword in hand, before his band,",
      "  Amang his en’mies a’, man.",
      "",
      "",
      "Poor Tammy Gage within a cage",
      "  Was kept at Boston-ha’, man;",
      "Till Willie Howe took o’er the knowe",
      "  For Philadelphia, man;",
      "Wi’ sword an’ gun he thought a sin",
      "  Guid Christian bluid to draw, man;",
      "But at New York, wi’ knife an’ fork,",
      "  Sir-Loin he hacked sma’, man.",
      "",
      "",
      "Burgoyne gaed up, like spur an’ whip,",
      "  Till Fraser brave did fa’, man;",
      "Then lost his way, ae misty day,",
      "  In Saratoga shaw, man.",
      "Cornwallis fought as lang’s he dought,",
      "  An’ did the Buckskins claw, man;",
      "But Clinton’s glaive frae rust to save,",
      "  He hung it to the wa’, man.",
      "",
      "",
      "Then Montague, an’ Guilford too,",
      "  Began to fear, a fa’, man;",
      "And Sackville dour, wha stood the stour,",
      "  The German chief to thraw, man:",
      "For Paddy Burke, like ony Turk,",
      "  Nae mercy had at a’, man;",
      "An’ Charlie Fox threw by the box,",
      "  An’ lows’d his tinkler jaw, man.",
      "",
      "",
      "Then Rockingham took up the game,",
      "  Till death did on him ca’, man;",
      "When Shelburne meek held up his cheek,",
      "  Conform to gospel law, man:",
      "Saint Stephen’s boys, wi’ jarring noise,",
      "  They did his measures thraw, man;",
      "For North an’ Fox united stocks,",
      "  An’ bore him to the wa’, man.",
      "",
      "",
      "Then clubs an’ hearts were Charlie’s cartes,",
      "  He swept the stakes awa’, man,",
      "Till the diamond’s ace, of Indian race,",
      "  Led him a sair faux pas, man:",
      "The Saxon lads, wi’ loud placads,",
      "  On Chatham’s boy did ca’, man;",
      "An’ Scotland drew her pipe an’ blew,",
      "  “Up, Willie, waur them a’, man!”",
      "",
      "",
      "Behind the throne then Granville’s gone,",
      "  A secret word or twa, man;",
      "While slee Dundas arous’d the class",
      "  Be-north the Roman wa’, man:",
      "An’ Chatham’s wraith, in heav’nly graith,",
      "  (Inspired bardies saw, man),",
      "Wi’ kindling eyes, cry’d, “Willie, rise!",
      "  Would I hae fear’d them a’, man?”",
      "",
      "",
      "But, word an’ blow, North, Fox, and Co.",
      "  Gowff’d Willie like a ba’, man;",
      "Till Suthron raise, an’ coost their claise",
      "  Behind him in a raw, man:",
      "An’ Caledon threw by the drone,",
      "  An’ did her whittle draw, man;",
      "An’ swoor fu’ rude, thro’ dirt an’ bluid,",
      "  To mak it guid in law, man."
    ],
    "linecount": "72"
  }
]