[2] The poem was also put to music and recorded by the Ulster Scots Folk Orchestra[3] and verse was used by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in their Emigration Series publication.
[4] The "Uncle Sam" of title refers to the later personification of the United States.
And dared retreats and dangers, Red-coats and Hessian strangers, In the lean, long-rifled Rangers, And the Pennsylvania Line!
Wherever there was fighting, Or wrong that needed writing, An Ulsterman was sighting His Kentucky gun with care:
The first to face the Tory, And the first to lift Old Glory, Made your war an Ulster story: Think it over, Uncle Sam!