A Song For Freedom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DEEEE FFGG DG HIJJ DG GGKK DG LLMM DG NNOO DEPFG QPRR DEESS TTUU DEVFERR| Come all ye bondmen far and near | A |
| Let's put a song in massa's ear | B |
| It is a song for our poor race | C |
| Who're whipped and trampled with disgrace | C |
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| Chorus | D |
| My old massa tells me O | E |
| This is a land of freedom O | E |
| Let's look about and see if't is so | E |
| Just as massa tells me O | E |
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| He tells us of that glorious one | F |
| I think his name was Washington | F |
| How he did fight for liberty | G |
| To save a threepence tax on tea | G |
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| Chorus | D |
| My old massa c | G |
| - | |
| And then he tells us that there was | H |
| A Constitution with this clause | I |
| That all men equal were created | J |
| How often have we heard it stated | J |
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| Chorus | D |
| My old massa c | G |
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| But now we look about and see | G |
| That we poor blacks are not so free | G |
| We 're whipped and thrashed about like fools | K |
| And have no chance at common schools | K |
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| Chorus | D |
| Still my old massa c | G |
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| They take our wives insult and mock | L |
| And sell our children on the block | L |
| Then choke us if we say a word | M |
| And say that 'niggers' shan't be heard | M |
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| Chorus | D |
| Still my old massa c | G |
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| Our preachers too with whip and cord | N |
| Command obedience in the Lord | N |
| They say they learn it from the book | O |
| But for ourselves we dare not look | O |
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| Chorus | D |
| Still my old massa tells me O | E |
| This is a | P |
| Christian | F |
| country O c | G |
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| There is a country far away | Q |
| Friend Hopper says 't is Canada | P |
| And if we reach Victoria's shore | R |
| He says that we are slaves no more | R |
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| Chorus | D |
| Now hasten all bondmen let us go | E |
| And leave this Christian country O | E |
| Haste to the land of the British Queen | S |
| Where whips for negroes are not seen | S |
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| Now if we go we must take the night | T |
| We're sure to die if we come in sight | T |
| The blood hounds will be on our track | U |
| And wo to us if they fetch us back | U |
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| Chorus | D |
| Now haste all bondmen let us go | E |
| And leave this | V |
| Christian | F |
| country O | E |
| God help us to Victoria's shore | R |
| Where we are free and slaves no more | R |
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