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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Merl Saunders

Fire Up+

1992

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and all the people were singin'
They went

Like my father before me, I will work the land
And like my brother up

Desperately Insensitive

Cripple Bastards

Desperately Insensitive

to a land whose only guilt is to be stuck among different fires
US peacekeepers point Serbs as traitors and criminals
in a war of words and pictures hiding

Liberia, your interior
Inferior, filthy bacteria
Queens shit I rep that, so expect that
If I ain't got a yankee then
I probably got a met hat
Laundry mat

bayi
Ma ma bami soro bayi, awh
Shey bi awon omo Yankee jo
Won lo n gbe l’adaranijo
Iyen o de concern mi jo pami’le ma pami’ta
Fi shey mo sinu mo si’kun

Words to describe Nicaragua of old
Cash crops and hunger and US control
Coffee and sugar on company land
Made to supply what the boss would demand

Billy Green

Stan Rogers

From Coffee House To Concert Hall

2000

to Colonel Harvey, "Now, let there be no delay,
If we're to reach the Yankee camp before the break of day.
I'll take you through the woods by night where I

YANKEE

Run, go anywhere
Just be the naughty air

Crossing everywhere
The world supports you, my dear

Jump, be your own guide
Let the borders down

His troopers, they were loyal
His troopers, they were young
They'd follow Allan Wilson to the setting of the sun
They were hands from many lands

today we go dey yotomi together
We go born pikin amen
We go buy motor o amen
We go buy land amen
We go kole mole everywhere
We go hold money amen
We go go

fresh Margiela's yankee boy swagger than dem dey like
But who be this Westernized African guy I'm on fire than dem
If being broke is a joke
No family guy

and sandals, aye 
We gonna move this music door to door
Like we we were selling Yankee Candles 
Aye
Speaking of which, lil baby I'm loyal, I won't disappear no

I'm on my James Harden
You know it's going down, like we land on a helipad
Birds eye view of the city or call it ciudad
Bodegas and corner stores, just

me some bands
Take a flight to Cali, I won’t call you when I land
That girl wouldn’t talk to me but now she want romance
So I’m just getting money, I’m

I see
So I’ll be out if you ain’t needing me
I used to pray they notice me don’t care bout that now
My POV is HOV the Yankee cap down
I like how that

be
Hey there Rebel hey Yankee
Merry Christmas same to you
Can you spare some coffee or food

Christmas 1862 
Soldiers stopped to call a truce
Shared

I sailed a ship across the ocean to another land
I saw Caribbean Women on the beach with Golden Tans
Drinking Rum all day and dancing under

From this day on I own my father's gun
We dug his shallow grave beneath the sun
I laid his broken body down below the southern land
It wouldn't do

of progress is pure nonsense,
Instead bring me the heads of the dead Yankee Presidents

Anyone who believes their protest was meant to be heard
Never utter

Here comes the hurricane, C.L. same name
Cut by the grain when I land upon the plain
Jah knew the Hebrew, a Papa Duke need you
But none of the fam

he put the Mick in center field and brought another pennant home
That boy could turn a Brooklyn dodger straight into a Yankee fan
When he put

about how that cajun fiddlin' man
Found you in a pawn shop and took you back down
To the Louisiana bayou land
You knew his wife and you knew his kids

he bad"
Some gloves in my fanny pack
With a Yankee hat
On God I’m relentless
They speaking all hard and pretentious
Bitch I’m guarding my fences
Cause

back again on that land of mine
To have my heart and beguiled
What lies ahead can't be a mistake
Day by day another Yankee wave

O'er the seas we go
Say

Fare thee well Princes landing stage
River Mersey fare thee well
Fore I am bound for California
A land that I know right well 

So fare thee well my