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To Canada
they were Loyalists,
To America they were traitors,
With the likes of Benedict Arnold,
And all those Yankee haters.
But there
is one that you don't know,
With the States she had some discord,
From Massachusetts she moved up north,
A girl called Laura Secord.
In 1812,
in the midst of the war,
With America fighting the British,
And Yankees attacking again and again,
The Empire was getting skittish.
They
captured the home of Laura's folks,
To harbour their sick and dying,
And Laura heard them discussing their plans,
They didn't know she was spying.
She made
an excuse to leave her home,
To visit a brother for days,
The Yankees said, "She's just a girl".
So they let her wander away.
For many
days she walked the land,
"Til she came to a Mohawk camp,
She told them all she heard and saw,
And became a Canadian champ.
The
Yankees came to fight again,
And this time they were beat,
Because of the courage of one small girl,
The battle was complete.
by David Ronald Bruce Pekrul
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