Jefferson and Liberty

Lyrics

[Verse 1] The night of fire is yet to come The tyrant shadow down the years Demands we kneel or take the gun And go shed blood instead of our tears [Chorus] So rejoice, Columbia's sons, rejoice! To tyrants never bend the knee But pledge your heart and hand and voice To Jefferson and Liberty [Verse 2] "Every twenty years," he said The time is ten times overpast To raise rebellion's fiery head And cast off tyranny's shell at last! [Chorus] So rejoice, Columbia's sons, rejoice! To tyrants never bend the knee But pledge your heart and hand and voice To Jefferson and Liberty [Verse 3] No man is good nor wise enough To rule another, or disown The rights of every woman and man To live and let live and be left alone [Chorus] So rejoice, Columbia's sons, rejoice! To tyrants never bend the knee But pledge your heart and hand and voice To Jefferson and Liberty [Verse 4] The starry banner that did fly O'er freedom's bloody barricade Now flaps and fades in foreign skies Or palaces that Empire made [Alternate Chorus] So arise, Columbia's sons, arise! Arise that you might yet be free Cast off the forces that made lies Of Jefferson and Liberty [Verse 5] The world that once in hope did watch A struggle for democracy Cries: "Have Columbia's sons forgot Jefferson and Liberty?" [Alternate Chorus] So arise, Columbia's sons, arise! Arise that you might yet be free Cast off the forces that made lies Of Jefferson and Liberty [Verse 6] But we, the heirs of Jefferson Like ancient Sons of Liberty Will bear in need the rebel's gun And never bow to tyranny [Alternate Chorus] So arise, Columbia's sons, arise! Arise that you might yet be free Cast off the forces that made lies Of Jefferson and Liberty