Special Reports & Tweets - 20150327_SpecialReport_Alex
Aired: 2015-03-27
Duration: 02:25


=== The Ride of Paul Revere (02:23) ===

[00:00:02]  The British are coming!
[00:00:03]  The British are coming!
[00:00:06]  Now the ride of Paul Revere set the nation on its ear, and the shock at Lexington heard round the world.
[00:00:15]  When the British fired in the early dawn, the war of independence had begun.
[00:00:20]  The die was cast, the rebel flag unfurled.
[00:00:25]  And on to Concord, marched the foe, to seize the arsenal, there you know.
[00:00:29]  Waking folks, and searching all around.
[00:00:34]  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.
[00:00:43]  And the shout around the world was the start of the revolution
[00:00:47]  The men were ready on the move Take your powder, take your gun, report to General
[00:00:56]  Washington Hurry men, there's not an hour to lose
[00:01:00]  It happened that they had planned, if the British was ever to come over here,
[00:01:04]  that they'd put a light up in this high church steeple.
[00:01:08]  And Paul went down there to look.
[00:01:10]  And sure enough, there was the light, burning brighter and day.
[00:01:15]  Well, Paul, he jumped on his old horse and he lit out.
[00:01:18]  He didn't know where he was going, but he knew he had to go somewhere.
[00:01:22]  Oh, I wish you could have seen it.
[00:01:23]  That old horse with his ears laid back and his nostrils wide open, sucking in wind like a jet engine.
[00:01:29]  Feet pounding on them cobblestones, striking off sparks.
[00:01:32]  Paul holding on for dear life and a hollering at the top of his lungs.
[00:01:35]  He says, the British is coming!
[00:01:37]  The British is coming!
[00:01:38]  Get your gun, we gonna have us a revolution!
[00:01:42]  And them farmers come a-piling out of the hay like bees out of a beehive.
[00:01:46]  Minute men, they's called.
[00:01:48]  What's minute men?
[00:01:49]  Minute men?
[00:01:50]  They's fellas that had to be ready at a minute's notice.
[00:01:52]  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.
[00:02:01]  And when the British come pranks and all dressed up in their red suits, they let them have it.
[00:02:08]  It was a sight to see.
[00:02:11]  And then it happened.
[00:02:13]  They fired the gun!
[00:02:14]  They fired the gun.
[00:02:16]  And the shot was so loud, it was heard clear around the world.
[00:02:22]  Oh, get out.
[00:02:25]  It's a fact.