%images; ]> scsm-000045 Here we are, here we are, or, Cross ober Jordan : a walk around / by Daniel D. Emmett ; arranged for the piano forte by M. Keller ...: a machine readable transcription. STERN COLLECTION OF LINCOLNIANA, Library of Congress Selected and converted. American Memory, Library of Congress.

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Here We Are, Here We Are! Or Cross Ober Jordan.

Oh! don't you hear de Capting say: Here we are, here we are! Oh! don't you hear de Capting say: Get on board, get on board! Oh! don't you hear de Capting say: Here we are, here we are! Oh! cut her loose an' sail away, Get on board, get on board!

Chorus: We'll all cross ober Jordan, we'll land on tudder shore, Den make room in de flatboat, for one nigger more; For Egypt's in de garden a kickin' up a row, Ho boys, ho boys! who can find us now?

I'll sail de worl' clar roun' an' roun', (3 times.) All by de railroad under groun'.

When I get home I'll hab a spree, (3 times.) Den leff dis worl' an climb a tree.

Old Massa Linkum split a rail, (3 times.) De sight ob niggers turns him pale [or] An' de Union clar from head to tail.

He's got his eyes on 'sixty four, (3 times.) Bekase he's Union to de core.

Remember Grant but dont forget (3 times.) Dat Little Mac am not dead yet!