Key: E major
Verse 1
not on that train,
on his trip that day, where was it,
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he was down in Alabama, miles away.
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In 1863, when John Wilkinson
the news went around the
world from Washington.
time had come.
John Wilkinson Boone,
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John Lincoln dead,
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with a pistol bled to the head
Lady Maham Lincoln,
before he went down,
You may bury me in the east,
you may bury me in the west
this evening,
brothers and sisters,
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to tell you just how he died.
Yes, he died, he's dead.
covering the ground.
And while he was lying there,
the sun rose and recognized him
and while he was lying there,
seven angels leaped
over the battlements of glory
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and come down to get him.
Ah, just when they got near him, he rose.
Ah, he rose and walked back
down among us.
Praise God,
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he walked back down among his people.
Oh, we got a new land.
We got a new land.
We got a new land.
It ain't no riding horse down
there with no whip.
It ain't no bagpipers down there.
No liars can go, and no cheaters can go,
it's no debit to detain us,
and no hard cash
to bring us back.
Ain't we got a new land?
He said you may bury me in the east,
you may bury me in the west,
but I'll hear that trumpet sound
time had come,
shot a Lincoln dead,
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