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Heard the news from the whispering trees, |
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This is the time when man must be freed, |
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No more burning in vain, |
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All we lose we'll have to gain, |
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Get ready children |
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Get ready children |
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Get ready children |
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Get ready children |
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Oh Didn't |
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I feed the cattle, |
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Didn't I plant the corn, |
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Didn't my people before me |
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Slave for this country, |
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Get ready children |
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Get ready children |
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Get ready children |
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Get ready children |
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Oh My sermon it was billed for freedom, |
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The good lord said son you're a free man, |
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I'm gonna talk that freedom talk, |
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Let me see you walk that freedom walk, |
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Get ready children |
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Get ready children |
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Get ready children |
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Get ready children |
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Oh When yah gets ready, |
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Children please, |
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A tell yah, |
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Got the news from a whispering tree ... |
