Last night Candlelight was awesome! It really, really was!
Soooo,
I was working the outside camp, like I always do. And we were joking around, talking about boys, spinning in circles, singing songs and over all having fun!
I was being British for the night, and I was hanging out in an American camp, you know, making friends with everyone. Let me tell you about my favorite part!
~A Brief History First~
We were portraying the year 1859. Around this area something called The Pig War was going on. The pig war was when an American shot and killed a British pig. America and Britain were already arguing about who owned Washington, and such as that. This was the straw that broke the camels back. And a war almost started.
Five warships were sent out from one side, (I remember not which) and marines, soldiers, and all kinds of troops from the other. All this over a pig.
Anyway, on Sep. 30, 1859, the newspaper Puget Sound Herald had a song on the front page by a Mr. Sitkum Siwash.
A New Song, To an Old Tune
(To the tune of Yankee Doodle) There is an Island down the sound Get out the way, you Britishers Etc.
By water all surrounded,
Where sometime since the Britishers
A colony had founded
Keep out the way, I tell you
Vancouver's Island you may have
But we'll hang on to Bellevue!
Like I said before, I was being British. And the Americans started singing this song! I was outraged! I stormed around, ranted about the rude Americans. Thankfully, the retired HBC workers (also British), who were in a tent near by the Americans started singing God Save The Queen
The Song
(to the same tune as My Country Tis of Thee (God Save was created first by the way!)) God save our gracious Queen, O Lord, our God, arise, Thy choicest gifts in store,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen:
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us:
God save the Queen.
Scatter her enemies,
And make them fall.
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all.
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign:
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice
God save the Queen
We had a sing off. It was amazing!
