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We Are Coming Father Abraham. Or, Three Hundred Thousand More.

We are coming Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more, From Mississippi's winding stream & from New England's shore; We leave our ploughs & workshops, our wives and children dear, With heart's too full for utterance, with but a silent tear; We dare not look behind us, but steadfastly before We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more!

Chorus: We are coming, coming, coming, We are coming, coming, coming, We are coming Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more.

If you look across the hill tops that now meet the northern sky, Long moving lines of rising dust your vision may descry; And now the wind, an instant tears the cloudy veil aside, And floats aloft our spangled flag in glory and in pride; And bayonets in the sunlight gleam, and bands brave music pour We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more!

If you look all up our valley's, where the growing harvests shine, You may see our sturdy farmer-boys fast forming into line; And children at their mother's knees are pulling at the weeds, And learning how to reap and sow, against their country's needs; And a farewell group stands weeping at ev'ry cottage door We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more!

You have call'd us, and we're coming, by Richmond's bloody tide, To lay us down for freedom's sake, our brother's bones beside; Or from foul treason's savage grasp to wrench the murd'rous blade, And in the face of foreign foes its fragments to parade. Six hundred thousand loyal men and true have gone before We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more!