The Boss of the 'Admiral Lynch'

Did you ever hear tell of Chili? I was readin' the other day / Of President Balmaceda and of how he was sent away. / It seems that he didn't suit 'em -- they thought that they'd like a change, / So they started an insurrection and chased him across the range. / They seemed to be restless people -- and, judging by what you hear, / They raise up these revolutions 'bout two or three times a year; / And the man that goes out of office, he goes for the boundary _QUICK_, / For there isn't no vote by ballot -- it's bullets that does the trick. / And it ain't like a real battle, where the prisoners' lives are spared, / And they fight till there's one side beaten / and then there's a truce declared,

And the man that has got the licking goes down like a blooming lord / To hand in his resignation and give up his blooming sword, / And the other man bows and takes it, and everything's all polite -- / This wasn't that kind of a picnic, this wasn't that sort of a fight. / For the pris'ners they took -- they shot 'em; / no odds were they small or great, / If they'd collared old Balmaceda, they reckoned to shoot him straight. / A lot of bloodthirsty devils they were -- but there ain't a doubt / They must have been real plucked 'uns -- the way that they fought it out, / And the king of 'em all, I reckon, the man that could stand a pinch, / Was the boss of a one-horse gunboat. They called her the 'Admiral Lynch'.