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In the year of '61, we left our native land, |
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For we could not bend our spirits to |
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The tyrant's stern command. |
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So we rallied 'round our Buckner, |
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While our hearts were sad and sore, |
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To offer our blood for freedom as our fathers did before |
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And we'll march! march! march! |
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To the music of the drum, |
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We were driven forth in exile, |
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From our old Kentucky home |
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When at first the southern flag unfurled |
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Its' folds upon the air, |
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Its' stars had hardly gathered 'til |
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Kentucky's sons were there. |
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And we swore a solemn oath and sternly gathered round |
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We would only live as freemen in the |
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Dark and bloody ground. |
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And we'll march! march! march! |
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To the music of the drum, |
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We were driven forth in exile, |
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From our old Kentucky home |
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With Buckner as our leader |
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And Morgan in the van, |
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We'll plant the flag of freedom |
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In our fair and happy land, |
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We'll drive the tyrant's minions |
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To the Ohio's rolling flood, |
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And dye her waves with crimson |
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With the coward yankee blood. |
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And we'll march! march! march! |
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To the music of the drum, |
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We were driven forth in exile, |
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From our old Kentucky home |
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Then cheer ye southern braves, |
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You will soon see the day, |
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When Kentucky's fairest daughters |
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Will cheer you on your way, |
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Then their proud old mothers |
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Will welcome one and all, |
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For united we stand, |
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But divided we fall! |
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And we'll march! march! march! |
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To the music of the drum, |
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We were driven forth in exile, |
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From our old Kentucky home |
