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The Emancipation Car

being an Original Composition of Anti-Slavery Ballads

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THE BONDMAN'S HOME.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE BONDMAN'S HOME.

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Air—“There is a Happy Land.”

We have a happy home,
Far, far away;
Where slavery is not known
In Canada.
Here men have equal rights,
As the blacks, so are the whites,
There like a band of knights,
“All men are free.”
There men protected are
By the Lion's paw;
All equal rights do share,
By a righteous law.
John Bull is the man for me,
He doth set the captive free,
Both on the land and sea,
Free one and all.
There mid the tempests cold,
On that blessed shore;
Are all both young and old,
Who have gone before,

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Crying with loudest strains,
Cast your yoke and break your chains,
And from old Georgia's plains,
Come, come away.