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Intro 1
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Asus4
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Verse 1
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Oh how we used to hate the sight
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Of the evil rent collector
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Got to tied for 40 bushels,
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but it don't seem right
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Up to the manor house
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to pay the Great Patroon
Verse 2
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We had taken our wilderness
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And turned the Earth to bounty
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by the rake's caress
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Never owning what we tilled below
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the crescent moon
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Up to the manor house to pay the
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Great Patroon
Verse 3
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The sheriff was about to sell the cows
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Or otherwise extort the rent
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So they met in barns and in out
of the way places
Verse 4
on how to get the rent
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What do you wear for civil
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war in 1844
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In upstate New York?
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What do you wear for civil war in 1844
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In upstate New York?
Verse 5
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These Indians wore
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Calico dresses
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They were belted at the waist
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Red flannel pantaloons or
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Those masks ..... looking things
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With fringe around the neck
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Horns upon their forehead
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Course animal hair put on for a beard
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At the pow- wow among
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The chief wore a striped calico
Verse 6
young lady's dress
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Blow on the tin dinner horn
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over the valley
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Call all the formerly normal
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men to revolt and rally
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The Feudal Land Laws
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What are
you waiting for? it's 1844!
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The worm has begun to turn
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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I saw those Calicos scorn and
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spurn their accusers
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With threatening talk and rough,
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tough threatening ges tures
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The feeling was
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stronger and stronger
(Stronger and stronger)
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They tried to talk like real Indians might:
"Me want cider" and the like
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Many a head had worn
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this crown of feathers
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I tried to be the leader of
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the Anti- Rent Rioters
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I recognized it as having belonged
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to a left- handed neighbor
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Ooh a little Indian man
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called Sander
Verse 8
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Blow the tin dinner horn
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over the valley
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Call all the formerly normal
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men to revolt and rally
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The Feudal Land Laws should be
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abolished
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What are you waiting for, it's 1844?
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The worm has begun to turn
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Three, four, five, waaah!
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Waaah!
Outro 1
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