C G F G C
[Verse]
F
Come pledge again your heart and your hand
C
One grasp that never will sever
F
Our password be our native land
C
Our motto, love forever
Am C
And let the orange lily be
F Dm
Your badge, my patriot brother
C G
It's the everlasting green for me
F C G F G C
And we for one another
[Verse]
F
Behold how green the gallant stem
C
On which the flower is blooming
F
How in one heavenly breeze and beam
C
Both flower and stem are glowing
Am C
The same good soil sustaining both
F Dm
Makes both united flourish
C G
But cannot give the orange growth
F C G
And cease the green to nourish
[Verse]
C F
The more the hand that plucks that flower
C
Will vainly strive to cherish
F
In that hour the stem blooms on
C
The flower, it begins to perish
Am C
Regard them then of equal worth
F Dm
While last their genial weather
C G
The time's at hand when deep in earth
F C G F G C
They will both sink together
[Verse]
F
And though it be in our country's cause
C
Our party feelings blended
F
'Til lasting peace from equal laws
C
On both will have descended
Am C
'Til then the orange lily be
F Dm
Your badge, my patriot brother
C G
It's the everlasting green for me
F C
And we for one another
F C
And we for one another
