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Red Dog Ash
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The Abolitionist John Brown
I left my home at eighteen years Winter 'fifty-five Saw those Kansas boys lose their lives For Missouri's Compromise
Then in 'fifty-six all full of nerve Determined, out for blood I saw John Brown roll into town Wagons caked with mud
Eight-hundred men and Sheriff Jones Left one in Lawrence dead So Brown set out to put a bullet deep In John P. Doyle's head
There's Jayhawk blood on free state soil And Missouri bones never more to toil Each man his own, no more to sell Gonna shoot you down, send you straight to hell
I'll tell you how if you allow This weren't no proxy war But that don't mean 'twas the hand of God Just reckoning the score
Abolition was the noble cause Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com For which he said he'd die And John Brown stood his holy ground With fire in his eyes
There's Jayhawk blood on free state soil And Missouri bones never more to toil Each man his own, no more to sell Gonna shoot you down, send you straight to hell
So I followed him across the land We went to Harpers Ferry Where he held the fort and took up arms More than any man could carry
Then at twenty-three I watched him die Hanging there alone A traitor to Virginia state Convictions hard as stone
There's Jayhawk blood on free state soil And Missouri bones never more to toil Each man his own, no more to sell Gonna shoot you down, send you straight to hell
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