Reply to “The bonnie blue flag” (The Stripes and Stars) (Listen to midi)

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1. We're fighting for our Union, we're fighting for our trust,

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we're fighting for that happy land, where sleeps our fathers’ dust.

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It cannot be dissevered, though it cost us bloody wars,

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we never can give up the land, where floats the stripes and stars.

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Hurrah, Hurrah, for equal rights hurrah !

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Hurrah for the good old flag that bears the stripes and stars !

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2. We trusted you as brothers, until you drew the sword,

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with impious hands at Sumpter you cut the silver cord.

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So now you hear the bugles, we come, the sons of Mars,

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to rally round the brave old flag, that bears the stripes and stars.

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3. We do not want your cotton, we do not want your slaves,

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but rather than divide the land, we'll fill your Southern graves.

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With Lincoln for our chieftain, we wear our country's stars,

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and rally round the brave old flag that bears the stripes and stars.

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4. We deem our cause most holy, we know we're in the right,

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and twenty million free men stand ready for the fight.

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Our pride is fair Columbia, no stain her beauty mars,

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on her we'll raise the brave old flag that bears the stripes and stars.

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5. And when this war is over, we'll each resume our home,

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and treat you still as brothers, where ever you may roam.

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We'll pledge the hand of friendship, and think no more of war,

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but dwell in peace beneath the flag that bears the stripes and stars.

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(capo 3rd) (J.L. Geddes)