“Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. On the eighteenth of April, in ‘75 hardly a man is now alive,Who remembers that famous day and year and the midnight ride of Paul Revere. He said to his friend, "If the British march…from the town to-night,Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch of the North Church tower 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 Middlesex village and farm for the country folk to be up and to arm."