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In the dark night a giant slumbered |
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Untouched for centuries |
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'Til awakened by a white man's cry |
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"This is the Eden I was to find" |
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There were lands to be charted |
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And to be claimed for a crown |
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In this dangerous land of hateful hate |
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Curiosity, filled the heads of these |
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There was an upper room, they had to see |
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Curiosity, killed the best of these |
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For a hero's hometown welcoming |
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Still they moved on and on and |
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Who came building missions? |
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Unswerving men of the cloth who gave their lives in numbers untold |
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So that black sheep entered the fold |
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Captured like human livestock, destined for slavery |
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Naked, walked to the shore where great ships moored |
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For the hell bound journeys |
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Bought and sold with a hateful hate |
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Curiosity, filled the breasts of these |
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With some strange ecstasy |
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Curiosity, killed the best of these |
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By robbing their lives of dignity |
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Still they moved on and on and |
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Calling men of adventure for a jungle bush safari |
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Come conquer the beast, his claws and teeth |
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See death in his eyes to know you're alive |
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European homesteads |
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Grew up in the colonies with civilized plans |
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For wild hinterlands, their guns and God willing |
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Such a hateful hate, such a hateful hate |
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Curiosity, spilled the blood of these |
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For their spotted skins and ivory |
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Curiosity, filled the heads of these |
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Madmen with the lies of destiny |
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Curiosity, spilled the blood of these |
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Then blotted their lives from history |
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Curiosity, filled the heads of these |
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One man claimed all that he could see |
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Curiosity, still entices these |
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Madmen with a lusting and a greed |
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Their legacy, legacy |
