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| The British are coming! | |
| The British are coming! | |
| Now the ride of Paul Revere set the nation on its ear, and the shock at Lexington heard round the world. | |
| When the British fired in the early dawn, the war of independence had begun. | |
| The die was cast, the rebel flag unfurled. | |
| And on to Concord, marched the foe, to seize the arsenal, there you know. | |
| Waking folks, and searching all around. | |
| Till our militia stopped them in their tracks, at the old North Bridge, we turned them back, and chased those Redcoats back to Boston Town. | |
| And the shout around the world was the start of the revolution | |
| The men were ready on the move Take your powder, take your gun, report to General | |
| Washington Hurry men, there's not an hour to lose | |
| It happened that they had planned, if the British was ever to come over here, | |
| that they'd put a light up in this high church steeple. | |
| And Paul went down there to look. | |
| And sure enough, there was the light, burning brighter and day. | |
| Well, Paul, he jumped on his old horse and he lit out. | |
| He didn't know where he was going, but he knew he had to go somewhere. | |
| Oh, I wish you could have seen it. | |
| That old horse with his ears laid back and his nostrils wide open, sucking in wind like a jet engine. | |
| Feet pounding on them cobblestones, striking off sparks. | |
| Paul holding on for dear life and a hollering at the top of his lungs. | |
| He says, the British is coming! | |
| The British is coming! | |
| Get your gun, we gonna have us a revolution! | |
| And them farmers come a-piling out of the hay like bees out of a beehive. | |
| Minute men, they's called. | |
| What's minute men? | |
| Minute men? | |
| They's fellas that had to be ready at a minute's notice. | |
| And when Paul comes screeching down the road that way, they grab their guns and head out behind the weeds and walls and trees and everywhere. | |
| And when the British come pranks and all dressed up in their red suits, they let them have it. | |
| It was a sight to see. | |
| And then it happened. | |
| They fired the gun! | |
| They fired the gun. | |
| And the shot was so loud, it was heard clear around the world. | |
| Oh, get out. | |
| It's a fact. |
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