Intro
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[Verse 1]
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Now old Abe Lincoln,
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B great big giant of a man was he
Yes, sir.
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He was born in an old log cabin,
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And he worked for a living,
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Splitting rails.
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Now Abe he knew right from wrong,
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For he was honest as the day is long,
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And these are the words he said.
[Chorus]
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This country, with its institutions,
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Belongs to the people who inhabit it.
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This country, with its Constitution,
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Belongs to us who live in it.
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Whenever they shall grow weary
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Of the existing government
They can exercise their constitutional right
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Of amending it,
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Or their revolutionary right
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To dismember or overthrow it!
[Verse 2]
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Oh Abe once ran
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B little country store in Salemtown,
Illinois.
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And a woman she paid him six pence
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More than she ought to have done,
B mistake.
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So off through the storm old Abe went,
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He paid that woman back every cemt,
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For Abe was an honest man.
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Now Abe was close to the ground,
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Oh he towered up six foot four
Bare feet.
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And his heart was as big as a whole
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Country, with room for more
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Like folks, too.
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He never forgot from whence he came,
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Though he landed in the White House and got great fame,
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For he was a working man.
[Chorus]
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This country, with its institutions,
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Belongs to the people who inhabit it.
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This country, with its Constitution,
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Belongs to us who live in it.
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Whenever they shall grow weary
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Of the existing government
They can exercise their constitutional right
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Of amending it,
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Or their revolutionary right
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To dismember or overthrow it!
[Verse 3]
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Now old Abe's eyes
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Were set way back deep in his head,
B thinking man.
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But you didn't need learning to understand
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What old Abe said
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Listen to this.
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This republic will never be free
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Till a black man's out of slavery
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And that made the Civil War.
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Now sometimes Abe
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He wavered and shook like a great tall tree,
That's true.
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For he wanted peace between the states
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In this country,
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Like the Bible said.
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But Abe never crawled when the showdown came,
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Like some people now who take his name,
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He beat those slavemen down.
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Now old Abe Lincoln's
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Dead and gone these eighty years,
B great man.
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But every year the party he made
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Says Lincoln's theirs,
No, sir.
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For if old Abe were living right now,
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To the man and at the bench, and the man at the plow,
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These are the words he'd say.
[Chorus]
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This country, with its institutions,
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Belongs to the people who inhabit it.
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This country, with its Constitution,
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Belongs to us who live in it.
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Whenever they shall grow weary
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Of the existing government
They can exercise their constitutional right
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Of amending it,
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Or their revolutionary right
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To dismember or overthrow it!
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