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We are a band of brothers and native to the soil |
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Fighting for our Liberty, With treasure, blood and toil |
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And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far |
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Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star! |
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Hurrah! Hurrah! |
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For Southern rights, hurrah! |
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Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star. |
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As long as the Union was faithful to her trust |
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Like friends and brethren, kind were we, and just |
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But now, when Northern treachery attempts our rights to mar |
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We hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star. |
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First gallant South Carolina nobly made the stand |
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Then came Alabama and took her by the hand |
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Next, quickly Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida |
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All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star. |
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Ye men of valor gather round the banner of the right |
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Texas and fair Louisiana join us in the fight |
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Davis, our loved President, and Stephens statesmen are |
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Now rally round the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star. |
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Now here's to brave Virginia, the old Dominion State, |
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With the young Confederacy at last has sealed her fate, |
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And spurred by her example, now other states prepar' |
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To hoist high the bonnie blue flag that bears a single star. |
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Then cheer, boys, cheer, raise a joyous shout |
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For Arkansas and North Carolina now have both gone out, |
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And let another rousing cheer for Tennessee be given, |
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The single star of the Bonnie Blue Flag has grown to be eleven. |
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Then here's to our Confederacy, strong we are and brave, |
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Like patriots of old we'll fight, our heritage to save; |
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And rather than submit to shame, to die we would prefer, |
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So cheer for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a single star. |
