Published in the Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser on November 16, 1767, this short, playful verse (adapted from a popular song printed two decades earlier) testifies to the growing sense of economic independence felt by citizens of Massachusetts in the years before the American Revolution. The song was printed as part of an intercolonial boycott of certain imported goods on which the British Parliament had imposed taxes. The song’s lyrics insist young women join in this patriotic boycott and refuse British-made goods, replacing them with substitutes from the American colonies