Long Ol’ Civil War

Twelve-score and seven-plus years ago
The white fathers of this diverse nation brought forth
Liberty and slavery juxtaposed

For too long white men much more equal
So engaged in long ol' civil war

Oh long old civil war
Oh we won't long endure

Yes we long, long forgot yes forgot all they died for
Liberty and the rot of the right juxtaposed

Again it's left up to us the livin' to ensure
They didn't die in vain eight-score years ago

Oh long old civil war
Oh we won't long endure

Ooh ah
Ooh ah
Ah ah oh
Such a long ol' civil war
Such a long ol' civil war

Now it's left up to us to ensure and endure
And that great task remains: not let it perish from the earth
Not let it perish, not let it perish from the earth
Not let it perish from the earth

President Lincoln delivered the 272 word Gettysburg Address
on November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth,
on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long
endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We
have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final
resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that
that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper
that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot
dedicate, we cannot consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have
consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for
us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us—that from these honored
dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we
here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in
vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth
of freedom, and that government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."