---===[ Fort Sumpter ]===---

We never really paid no mind,

The fort was always there.

We tilled the land, and planted crops,

And lived without a care.

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We didn't want a war down here,

Jeff Davis told us no.

But Saturday, we took the fort,

Them Yankees had to go.

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So now we sit and watch a ship,

It's headed in our way.

It flies the flag we cannot see,

We'll shoot our guns, today.

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And when it sinks, there'll be a war,

And some of us will die.

But first we need to shoot the guns,

So they won't ask us why.

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Tomorrow, there'll be other ships,

And other guns to load.

And some of them will shoot us back,

Cause war don't have no code.

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But til we fire our warning shot,

It's peaceful, where we stand.

There ain't no war unless you fight,

For freedom, rights and land.

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They'll call us Rebel, when they win,

And call our war a crime.

We probably shouldn't fire today,

But now we're out of time.

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All history the winners write,

The losers all are hung.

And land is lost, and money spent,

And funeral bells are rung.

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So, should we shoot our captured guns,

And kill a million men?

Or go back home, and free our slaves,

And learn to plant again?

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