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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=344085" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Boss of the Admiral Lynch</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did you ever hear tell of Chili? I was readin' the other day <br>Of President Balmaceda and of how he was sent away. <br>It seems that he didn't suit 'em -- they thought that they'd like a change, <br>So they started an insurrection and chased him across the range. <br>They seem to be restless people -- and, judging by what you hear, <br>They raise up these revolutions 'bout two or three times a year; <br>And the man that goes out of office, he goes for the boundary quick, <br>For there isn't no vote by ballot -- it's bullets that does the trick. <br>And it ain't like a real battle, where the prisoners' lives are spared, <br>And they fight till there's one side beaten and then there's a truce declared, <br>And the man that has got the licking goes down like a blooming lord <br>To hand in his resignation and give up his blooming sword, <br>And the other man bows and takes it, and everything's all polite -- <br>This wasn't that sort of a picnic, this wasn't that sort of a fight. <br>For the pris'ners they took -- they shot 'em, no odds were they small or great; <br>If they'd collared old Balmaceda, they reckoned to shoot him straight. <br>A lot of bloodthirsty devils they were -- but there ain't a doubt <br>They must have been real plucked uns, the way that they fought it out, <br>And the king of 'em all, I reckon, the man that could stand a pinch, <br>Was the boss of a one-horse gunboat. They called her the Admiral Lynch. <br>Well, he was for Balmaceda, and after the war was done, <br>And Balmaceda was beaten and his troops had been forced to run, <br>The other man fetched his army and proceeded to do things brown. <br>He marched 'em into the fortress and took command of the town, <br>Cannon and guns and horses troopin' along the road, <br>Rumblin' over the bridges, and never a foeman showed <br>Till they came in sight of the harbour -- and the very first thing they see <br>Was this mite of a one-horse gunboat a-lying against the quay; <br>And there as they watched they noticed a flutter of crimson rag <br>And under their eyes he hoisted old Balmaceda's flag. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, I tell you it fairly knocked 'em -- it just took away their breath, <br>For he must ha' known, if they caught him, 'twas nothin' but sudden death. <br>Ad' he'd got no fire in his furnace, no chance to put out to sea, <br>So he stood by his gun and waited with his vessel against the quay. <br>Well, they sent him a civil message to say that the war was done, <br>And most of his side were corpses, and all that were left had run, <br>And blood had been spilt sufficient; so they gave him a chance to decide <br>If he's haul down his bit of bunting and come on the winning side. <br>He listened and heard their message, and answered them all polite <br>That he was a Spanish hidalgo, and the men of his race must fight! <br>A gunboat against an army, and with never a chance to run, <br>And them with their hundred cannon and him with a single gun: <br>The odds were a trifle heavy -- but he wasn't the sort to flinch. <br>So he opened fire on the army, did the boss of the Admiral Lynch. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They pounded his boat to pieces, they silenced his single gun, <br>And captured the whole consignment, for none of 'em cared to run; <br>And it don't say whether they shot him -- it don't even give his name -- <br>But whatever they did I'll wager that he went to his graveyard game. <br>I tell you those old hidalgos, so stately and so polite, <br>They turn out the real Maginnis when it comes to an uphill fight. <br>There was General Alcantara, who died in the heaviest brunt, <br>And General Alzereca was killed in the battle's front; <br>But the king of 'em all, I reckon -- the man that could stand a pinch -- <br>Was the man who attacked the army with the gunboat Admiral Lynch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Andrew+Barton+Paterson">Andrew Barton Paterson</a><div class=q>
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It seems that he didn't suit 'em -- they thought that they'd like a change, 
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