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Abraham Lincoln

words and music by David Kerner                                                

Abraham Lincoln
Got me to think'in
How every person is born to be free
He delivered his proclamation
That brought about the emancipation
To end this nation's scourge of slavery.

Born in 1809 in frontier Kentucky

This world you know it sure was lucky

To see Abe Lincoln walk across its stage.

From his youth he loved to read and to share a good joke

He worked hard in the fields and on a river boat

And he grew up to be a great leader and a sage.

Well aquainted with hardship and sorrow

Why the righteous suffer, everbody would like to know

But Abraham he persevered, no nothing could keep him down

And his heart, with kindness overflowed ...