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Chester (song)

Among the patriotic anthems sung during the American Revolutionary War, only Yankee Doodle was more popular than William Billings' Chester, from his songbook, The Singing Master's Assistant (1778).

Let tyrants shake their iron rod,

And Slav'ry clank her galling chains,

We fear them not, we trust in God,

New England's God forever reigns.

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