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	Grab your hat Let's get goin' MMMMmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmMMMMM"
Voice	"Fathered by Lincoln Mothered by a Civil War Born in the smoke and blood of Spottsylvania Courthouse, Bull Run, Gettysburg. Given the sharp daggers Of three Constitutional Amendments. Clothed in the greatest Civilization known to modern man Then set on the road to town . . . But today You lie sleeping Far, far outside the City Gates."
Choir	"Come on Black man Grab your hat Let's get goin' MMMMmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmMMMMM"
Voice	"Singer of hymns, warbler of the blues, picker of cotton, layer of railroad ties . . . poet and bonecrusher . . . big muscles and Ph.D's. America has seen you go to school at Howard, Atlanta, Tuskegee; at Harvard, Oxford, Berlin