"Our Flag Is There" (1829)
Words and Melody by Purser Joseph Watson, U.S.N.
Aboard the U.S.S. Boston, 1829.

[Source: page 25 from "Naval Songs" Compiled by S. B. Luce
(1902, 1918)]

1. Our flag is there! Our flag is there!
We’ll hail it with three loud huzzahs!
Our flag is there! Our flag is there!
Behold the glorious Stripes and Stars!
Stout hearts have fought for that bright flag,
Strong hands sustain’d it masthead high,—
And oh! to see how proud it waves,
Brings tears of joy in ev’ry eye.

CHORUS [sung after each VERSE]
Our flag is there! Our flag is there!
We’ll hail it with three loud huzzahs!
Our flag is there! Our flag is there!
Behold the glorious Stripes and Stars!

2. That flag has stood the battle’s roar,
With foemen stout, with foemen brave;
Strong hands have strove that flag to low’r,
And found a speedy wat’ry grave!
That flag is known on ev’ry shore,
The standard of a gallant band,
Alike unstain’d in peace or war,
It floats o’er freedom’s happy land.