To W. H. Nevil Esq.
"How Are You Maximilian?
or
Off for Mexico" (1865)

Wanted
Emigrants for Mexico
Officers & Soldiers Preferred.

Song and Chorus
[Words and Music]
by
Eastburn
[aka Joseph Eastburn Winner (1837-1918)]
Author of _Prisoners Release, _Lone Heart,
Our Flag O'er Richmond Waves Again &c.

Philiadelphia: W[illia]m. R. Smith, Agt. 135 Nth Eighth St.
N. York: W. A. Pond & Co.
Boston: O. Ditson & Co.
Cinn.: A. C. Peters & Bro.
Cleveland: S. Brainard & Co.
Pittsburgh: Wameling & Barr
G. F. Swain, Engraver
Plate No. W. R. S.
[Source: 013/156@Levy]

1. Now “Uncle Sam” has done his work,
  He’s always wide awake,
He’d better go to Mexica,
  A lettle “Nap” to take;
And let the willy Frenchman see,
  He cannot play his pranks,
Upon our friends the Mexicans
  Nor yet  upon the “Yanks.”

CHORUS [sung after each VERSE]
O! O! O!
We’re off to Mexico,
And this is our song
As we march along.
How are you Maximillian?

2. We have a doctrine in our land,
  We call it the “Monroe;”
From it Napoleon can tell,
  Just how far he can go;
He has a knack of writing books,
  (Let him to that adhere.)
For though he writes, he cannot play
  The part of Seizer, here.

3. There’s Maximillian who has proved
  Himself a perfect ape,
And let the Frenchman draw him on
  Into a dreadful scrape;
He’d better “pack his traps” and move,
  And that right quickly too;
Or he will find what “Yankee lads,”
  And “Johnny Reb” can do.

4. Though Yanks and Rebs have fought awhile,
  Their quarrel now is done;
And Maximillian will find out,
  That they again are one
And let this maxim prove its truth,
  As homeward he doth rush,
“A bird in hand is always worth
  A couple in the bush.”