Abraham Lincoln chords by 
Lead Belly 
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Key: E major•
Verse 1
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They tell the story, about that train,
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that Abraham Lin coln was
not on that train,
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when that train started,
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
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Booth shot Abraham Lincoln,
the news went around the
world from Washington.
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They carried the news from Washington
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that Abraham Lin coln's
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,
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he told him this
You may bury me in the east,
you may bury me in the west
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But I'll hear that trumpet
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sound in the morning
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Yes, yes, in the morning,
this evening,
brothers and sisters,
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I come to you in a holiness
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manner
to tell you just how he died.
Yes, he died, he's dead.
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He was lying there in his
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blood on the ground,
covering the ground.
And while he was lying there,
the sun rose and recognized him
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and closed his step inside,
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closed and went down.
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Yes, and the sun went down,
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and he went down in the morning, yes,
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?
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Ain't we got a new land?
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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
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in the morn ing.
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That it's a news from Washington,
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that it is a Hamlin gun,
time had come,
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gone with the booze,
shot a Lincoln dead,
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with a filter blast to the head.
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