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Huddle up close, sit down and listen
You don’t even know what you’re missing.
Once many many many years ago,
There once lived a man we all should know,
Two years before the Civil War fights,
A man took a stand for
Slaves and their rights
In Virginia, the whites had it made though,
This was before the Harpers Ferry raid.
Twenty-two men, several whites, a couple blacks
Tried to run the train of slavery off it’s tracks,
They brought guns and took the town,
Obeying every order from Chief John Brown

John Brown sat down and hatched a plan,
He wanted liberation for the black man,
He assembled his crew and set the course,
The best was to win through force,
They attacked in the dark of night,
The arsenal guards didn’t put up much a fight,
Everyone thought that John was a hellion,
Trying to spark a slave rebellion
People started shooting and things got hot,
Two of John Brown’s sons got shot,
The army came on top was Lee,
who later was the traitor in the confederacy,
John Brown got caught and couldn’t break loose
He was sentenced to die by the end of noose

Some say John Brown was rotten to the core,
That he was the cause of the Civil War,
Because of Mr. Brown, history was made,
He was a freedom fighter at the Harpers Ferry raid

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave;
John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave
John Brown's body lies a mouldering the grave
His soul's marching on!

Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on!

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from How The East Was Lost, released December 8, 2010

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