Oh Shenandoah,

They have danced on the house-tops,They have hidden in the ground.They were liquid like musiciansWith anything for keys,Beating tunes upon the windows,Keeping time upon the trees.

An’ massa tink it day ob doom,An’ we ob jubilee.De Lord dat heap de Red Sea wavesHe jus’ as ‘trong as den;He say de word: we las’ night slaves;To-day, de Lord’s freemen.De yam will grow, de cotton blow,We’ll hab de rice an’ corn:O nebber you fear, if nebber you hearDe driver blow his horn!Ole massa…

And tell the doleful tragedyThat late was play’d at Globe;For no man that can sing and sayBut was scar’d on St. Peter’s Day.Oh sorrow, pitiful sorrow, and yet all this is true.All you that please to understand,Come listen to my story,To see Death with his raking brand‘Mongst such an auditory;Regarding neither Cardinal’s might,Nor yet the…

Though the sunlight gleams on the outer worldThere the clouds drift cold and gray.‘Only one man killed,’ is the tidings read,‘Our loss was trifling; we triumphed,’ ’twas said –And only here in the home on the hillDid the words breathe aught but of triumph still.They had watched and waited, had prayed and wept,These loving hearts…

Though now by Slavery’s minions hiss’dAnd covered o’er with shame,It is a spell of light and power —The watchword of the free : ——Who spurns it in the trial-hour,A craven soul is he !I am an Abolitionist!Then urge me not to pause;For joyfully do I enlistIn Freedom’s sacred cause:A nobler strife the world ne’er saw,Th’…

Roll me over, lay me down,And do it again.[CHORUS]Roll me over, in the clover,Roll me over, lay me down,And do it again.Now, this is number two,And he’s got me in a stew.Roll me over, lay me down,And do it again.[CHORUS]Now, this is number three,And his hand is on my knee.Roll me over, lay me down,And…