For President and Liberty,
For home and native land,
We 'll bear the banner of the free,
And pledge life, heart, and hand.
We 'll guard the Union, side by side,
The many States in one;
The land of freemen's hope and pride,
Where bravest deeds were done;
The land for which our fathers died,
The land of Washington!

The legacy our fathers gave
Was Freedom, and the blood
Which rather craves a hero's grave
Than bear a tyrant's rod.
And all the blood those men of yore
Transmitted to our veins,
For Freedom we will freely pour,
As summer pours the rains
To cover fields with harvests o'er
Where farmers sow their grains.

When traitors hurl the battle shock
To rend the Land in twain,
Our Union ranks shall be the rock
'Gainst which they dash in vain;
For God, who helped our fathers when
They fought for Liberty,
Will help, by us, their cause again,
If we but dare be free,
And scorn to make of other men
The slaves we scorn to be.

Then, freemen, strike for Freedom's sake!
From mountain and from shore,
From busy mart and distant lake,
Come, join the sacred war!
For President and Liberty,
And for the Union stand,
Till valor, crowned by victory,
Has crushed the traitor band,
And borne the banner of the free
Once more through all the land!