Misc Traditional – Free America (Guitar)

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That seat of science Athens,

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And earth’s proud mistress, Rome.

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Where now are all their glories?

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We scarce can find a tomb.

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Then guard your rights, Americans,

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Nor stoop to lawless sway,

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Oppose, oppose, oppose, oppose

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For North America.

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Proud Albion bow’d to Caesar,

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And numerous lords before,

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To Picts, to Danes, to Normans,

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And many masters more;

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But we can boast Americans

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Have never fall’n a prey,

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Huzza, huzza, huzza, huzza

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For Free America.

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We led fair Freedom hither,

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And lo, the desert smiled,

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A paradise of pleasure

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New opened in the wild;

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Your harvest, bold Americans,

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No power shall snatch away,

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Preserve, preserve, preserve your rights

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In Free America.

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Torn from a world of tyrants

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Beneath this western sky

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We formed a new dominion,

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A land of liberty;

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The world shall own we’re freemen here,

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And such will ever be,

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Huzza, huzza, huzza, huzza

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For love and liberty.

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God bless this maiden climate,

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And through her vast domain

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May hosts of heroes cluster

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That scorn to wear a chain.

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And blast the venal sycophants

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Who dare our rights betray;

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Assert yourselves, yourselves, yourselves

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For brave America.

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Lift up your hearts, my heroes,

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And swear with proud disdain,

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The wretch that would ensnare you

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Shall spread his net in vain;

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Should Europe empty all her force,

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We’d meet them in array,

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And shout huzza, huzza, huzza

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For brave America.

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The land where freedom reigns shall still

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Be masters of the main,

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In giving laws and freedom

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To subject France and Spain;

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And all the isles o’er ocean spread

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Shall tremble and obey,

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The prince who rules by Freedom’s laws

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In North America.