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[Intro]
[Verse 1]
Now old Abe Lincoln,
A great big giant of a man was he
Yes, sir.
He was born in an old log cabin,
And he worked for a living,
Splitting rails.
Now Abe he knew right from wrong,
For he was honest as the day is long,
And these are the words he said.
[Chorus]
This country, with its institutions,
Belongs to the people who inhabit it.
This country, with its Constitution,
Belongs to us who live in it.
Whenever they shall grow weary
Of the existing government
They can exercise their constitutional right
Of amending it,
Or their revolutionary right
To dismember or overthrow it!
[Verse 2]
Oh Abe once ran
A little country store in Salemtown,
Illinois.
And a woman she paid him six pence
More than she ought to have done,
A mistake.
So off through the storm old Abe went,
He paid that woman back every cemt,
For Abe was an honest man.
Now Abe was close to the ground,
Oh he towered up six foot four
Bare feet.
And his heart was as big as a whole
Country, with room for more
Like folks, too.
He never forgot from whence he came,
Though he landed in the White House and got great fame,
For he was a working man.
[Chorus]
This country, with its institutions,
Belongs to the people who inhabit it.
This country, with its Constitution,
Belongs to us who live in it.
Whenever they shall grow weary
Of the existing government
They can exercise their constitutional right
Of amending it,
Or their revolutionary right
To dismember or overthrow it!
[Verse 3]
Now old Abe's eyes
Were set way back deep in his head,
A thinking man.
But you didn't need learning to understand
What old Abe said
Listen to this.
This republic will never be free
Till a black man's out of slavery
And that made the Civil War.
Now sometimes Abe
He wavered and shook like a great tall tree,
That's true.
For he wanted peace between the states
In this country,
Like the Bible said.
But Abe never crawled when the showdown came,
Like some people now who take his name,
He beat those slavemen down.
Now old Abe Lincoln's
Dead and gone these eighty years,
A great man.
But every year the party he made
Says Lincoln's theirs,
No, sir.
For if old Abe were living right now,
To the man and at the bench, and the man at the plow,
These are the words he'd say.
[Chorus]
This country, with its institutions,
Belongs to the people who inhabit it.
This country, with its Constitution,
Belongs to us who live in it.
Whenever they shall grow weary
Of the existing government
They can exercise their constitutional right
Of amending it,
Or their revolutionary right
To dismember or overthrow it!