Never mind the geography and rhyming and rhythm, etc. . . .
Listen my children and you shall hear:
Of the Palin ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Barely any Joe sixpack is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his buddy, "If the Commies march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the lighthouse dome
Of the seaside village as a signal light,—
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Alaskan village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm."
