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Song Info
Genre
Charts
Peak #193
Peak in subgenre #63
Author
M. G. Jacobs
Rights
Feb 2009
Uploaded
February 28, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 7.3 MB • 128 kbps • 7:59
Story behind the song
The oratorio attempts to tell the story of the war from all sides, the North, the South, and the slaves, both bound and freed. The story of Ned, the runaway slave, is used to hold it all together dramatically. The score is available in .pdf.
Lyrics
Approximate times are given for the words.
3 seconds
Tenor: Taken her, Taken her...Georgia
Soprano: I toil in the cotton and the cane.
Tenor: Never see Nellie any more.
Tenor: Never more.
Soprano: I toil my life away...
Tenor: Georgia...
Soprano: away...
Tenor: bigger than the sky.
1.29
Womens Chorus: Hurrah for the wagon, the good old union wagon;
Mens Chorus: Wait for the wagon, the dissolution wagon;
Womens Chorus: Uncle Sam drives the wagon, so we'll all take a ride.
Mens Chorus: the South is the wagon, so we'll all take a ride.
1.55
Chorus: Our cause is just and holy, our men are brave and true.
We'll whip the Lincoln cut-throats is all we have to do.
God bless our noble army, in Him we will confide;
So jump into the wagon and all take a ride.
Soprano: Wait for the wagon, wagon wagon
Chorus: Wait for the wagon, the dissolution wagon;
Soprano: Southern wagon so we'll all take a ride.
Chorus: the South is the wagon, so we'll all take a ride.
2.24
Bass: These are the lands we love, the free lands of the South.
Chorus: These are Confederate Lands; Hurrah, Hurrah. These lands are of the South and Free.
2.47
Tenor: (Ned) I remember my little red canoe
My banjo and the songs I made for ... for ... for Nellie Gray.
3.09
Soprano: Hurrah for the choice of the nation, our chieftan so brave and so true,
For the people are everywhere calling for Lincoln and liberty too.
People are everywhere calling for Lincoln and liberty too.
3.35
Soprano: Then up with our banner victorious, the star-spangled red, white and blue;
Chorus: Then up with our banner victorious, the star-spangled red, white and blue;
Soprano: we'll fight till our banner's victorious, for Lincoln and liberty too.
Chorus: we'll fight till our banner's victorious, for Lincoln and liberty too
Soprano: Lincoln
and liberty too.
Tenor: For Lincoln and liberty too.
Bass: For Lincoln and liberty too.
Soprano: For Lincoln and
liberty too.
Chorus: For Lincoln and liberty too.
4.15
Soprano: God save the South,
God save the South,
her altars and firesides,
God save the South.
Chorus: God be our shield,
at home or a-field.
Spread thine arms over us.
Strengthen and save.
4.51
Soprano: We'll fight till our banner's victorious, victorious, victorious, victorious,
Tenor: We'll fight till our banner's victorious, victorious, victorious, victorious,
Bass: victorious,
Chorus: We'll fight till our banner's victorious, victorious, victorious, victorious,
5.13
Soprano: War to the hilt. War to the hilt. Theirs be the guilt,
Tenor: War to the hilt. War to the hilt.
Bass: War to the hilt. War to the hilt. Theirs be the guilt
Chorus: War to the hilt. War to the hilt. Theirs be the guilt
Tenor: who fetter the free man to ransom the slave.
Bass: who fetter the free man to ransom the slave.
Chorus: who fetter the free man to ransom the slave.
Womens Chorus: Who fetter the free man to ransom the slave.
Tenor: Fetter the free man.
Bass: Fetter the free man.
Chorus: to ransom the slave.
6.11
Chorus: Lay Thou their legions low,
Roll back the ruthless
