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e. a. atlee - oh, say do you hear lyrics

[stanza 1]
oh, say do you hear, at the dawn’s early light
the shrieks of those bondmen, whose blood is now streaming
from the merciless lash, while our banner in sight
with its stars, mocking freedom, is fitfully gleaming?
do you see the backs bare? do you mark every score
of the whip of the driver trace channels of gore?
and say, doth our star-spangled banner yet wave
o’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?

[stanza 2]
on the sh0r-, dimly seen thro’ the mists of the deep
where afric’s race in false safety reposes
what is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep
as it heedlessly sweeps, half conceals, half discloses?
’tis a slave ship that’s seen, by the morning’s first beam
and its tarnished reflection pollutes now the stream
’tis our star-spangled banner! oh! when shall it wave
o’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!

[stanza 3]
and where is the band, who so valiantly bore
the havoc of war, and the battle’s confusion
for liberty’s sweets? we shall know them no more
their fame is eclispsed by foul slavery’s pollution
no refuge is found on our unhallowed ground
for the wretched in slavery’s manacles bound
while our star-spangled banner in vain boasts to wave
o’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!

[stanza 4]
shall we ne’er hail the day when as freemen shall stand
the millions who groan under matchless oppression?
shall liberty’s shouts, in our heaven-rescued land
ne’er be shared by the slave in our blood-guilty nation?
oh, let us be just, ere in god we dare trust
else the day will o’er take us when perish we must
and our star-spangled banner at half mast shall wave
o’er the death-bed of freedom—the home of the slave

- e a atlee lyrics

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