NATIONAL ANTHEM: ARISE! ARISE!

(by Jean Rohe)


Atlantic and Pacific flow
The Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico
The land between sustains us all
To cherish it, our tireless call

	Arise! Arise! 
	I see the future in your eyes
	To a more perfect union we aspire
	And lift our voices from the fire

We reached these shores from many lands
We came with hungry hearts and hands
Some came by force and some by will
At the auction block, in the darkened mill

	Arise! Arise!...

We died in your fields and your factories
Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees
With an old coat hanger in a room somewhere
A trail of tears, an electric chair

	Arise! Arise!...

Our great responsibility
To be guardians of our liberty
'Til tyrants bow to the people's dream
And justice flows like a mighty stream

	Arise! Arise!...
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