The Gettysburg Address Lyrics

Song	The Gettysburg Address
Artist	Johnny Cash
Album	America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song
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[00:00.100]	“Four score and seven years ago”, so began the message “
[00:05.020]	of a war-weary president, Abraham Lincoln.
[00:08.820]	A message written on the back of an envelope, on a train,
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[00:12.200]	on the way to dedicate a battlefield,
[00:15.620]	where men from the north and south had died at Gettysburg Pennsylvania.
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[00:24.740]	"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent
[00:30.780]	a new nation, conceived in liberty
[00:34.500]	and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[00:40.340]
[00:41.160]	Now we're engaged in a great civil war,
[00:44.160]	testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived
[00:49.060]	and so dedicated, can long endure.
[00:53.260]	We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
[00:56.280]	We have come to dedicate a portion of that field
[00:59.040]	as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives,
[01:03.920]	that that nation might live.
[01:06.120]	It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
[01:11.920]	But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
[01:15.500]	We cannot hallow this ground
[01:18.060][for the]	(The) brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
[01:24.240]	have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
[01:31.760]	The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,
[01:36.740]	but it can never forget what they did here.
[01:39.540]	It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work
[01:44.800]	which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
[01:49.740]	It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us:
[01:55.760]	that from these honored dead we take increased devotion
[02:00.340]	to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion;
[02:05.460]	that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain
[02:12.500]	that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom
[02:19.220]and that government of the people, by the people, [and]	for the people,
[02:27.980]	shall not perish from the earth.
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[00:00.050]
[00:00.100]	" Four score and seven years ago", so began the message "
[00:05.020]	of a warweary president, Abraham Lincoln.
[00:08.820]	A message written on the back of an envelope, on a train,
[00:10.720]
[00:12.200]	on the way to dedicate a battlefield,
[00:15.620]	where men from the north and south had died at Gettysburg Pennsylvania.
[00:21.280]
[00:24.740]	" Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent
[00:30.780]	a new nation, conceived in liberty
[00:34.500]	and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[00:40.340]
[00:41.160]	Now we' re engaged in a great civil war,
[00:44.160]	testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived
[00:49.060]	and so dedicated, can long endure.
[00:53.260]	We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
[00:56.280]	We have come to dedicate a portion of that field
[00:59.040]	as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives,
[01:03.920]	that that nation might live.
[01:06.120]	It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
[01:11.920]	But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
[01:15.500]	We cannot hallow this ground
[01:18.060][for the]	The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
[01:24.240]	have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
[01:31.760]	The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,
[01:36.740]	but it can never forget what they did here.
[01:39.540]	It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work
[01:44.800]	which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
[01:49.740]	It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us:
[01:55.760]	that from these honored dead we take increased devotion
[02:00.340]	to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion
[02:05.460]	that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain
[02:12.500]	that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom
[02:19.220]and that government of the people, by the people, [and]	for the people,
[02:27.980]	shall not perish from the earth.
[02:35.180]

[00:00.050]
[00:00.100]	" Four score and seven years ago", so began the message "
[00:05.020]	of a warweary president, Abraham Lincoln.
[00:08.820]	A message written on the back of an envelope, on a train,
[00:10.720]
[00:12.200]	on the way to dedicate a battlefield,
[00:15.620]	where men from the north and south had died at Gettysburg Pennsylvania.
[00:21.280]
[00:24.740]	" Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent
[00:30.780]	a new nation, conceived in liberty
[00:34.500]	and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
[00:40.340]
[00:41.160]	Now we' re engaged in a great civil war,
[00:44.160]	testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived
[00:49.060]	and so dedicated, can long endure.
[00:53.260]	We are met on a great battlefield of that war.
[00:56.280]	We have come to dedicate a portion of that field
[00:59.040]	as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives,
[01:03.920]	that that nation might live.
[01:06.120]	It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
[01:11.920]	But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate,
[01:15.500]	We cannot hallow this ground
[01:18.060][for the]	The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
[01:24.240]	have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
[01:31.760]	The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,
[01:36.740]	but it can never forget what they did here.
[01:39.540]	It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work
[01:44.800]	which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
[01:49.740]	It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us:
[01:55.760]	that from these honored dead we take increased devotion
[02:00.340]	to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion
[02:05.460]	that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain
[02:12.500]	that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom
[02:19.220]and that government of the people, by the people, [and]	for the people,
[02:27.980]	shall not perish from the earth.
[02:35.180]

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