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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2010
- This was a song written and performed by the Hutchinson family who were ardent abolitionists as well as supporters of temperance and increased rights for women and worker's. They became well known in the 1840s by popularizing the use of four part harmony in choral singing.
The lyrics have been shortened in this presentation and are as follows:
Ho! the car, Emancipation,
Rides majestic through our nation
Bearing on its train, the story
Liberty! a nation's glory.
Roll it along! Roll it along!
Roll it along! thro' the nation
Freedom's car, Emancipation
Roll it along! Roll it along!
Roll it along! thro' the nation
Freedom's car, Emancipation.
First of all the train, and greater,
Speeds the dauntless Liberator
Onward cheered amid hosannas,
And the waving of free banners.
Roll it along! Roll it along!
Roll it along! spread your banners
While the people shout hosannas.
Roll it along! Roll it along!
Roll it along! spread your banners
While the people shout hosannas.
Let the ministers and churches
Leave behind sectarian lurches;
Jump on board the car of freedom
Ere it be too late to need them.
Sound the alarm! Sound the alarm!
Sound the alarm! pulpit's thunder!
Ere too late, you see your blunder.
Sound the alarm! Sound the alarm!
Sound the alarm! pulpit's thunder!
Ere too late, you see your blunder.
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Rail roads to emancipation
Cannot rest on Clay foundation
And the tracks of 'The Magician'
Are but rail roads to perdition.
Pull up the rails! Pull up the rails!
Pull up the rails! Emancipation
Cannot rest on such foundation.
Pull up the rails! Pull up the rails!
Pull up the rails! Emancipation
Cannot rest on such foundation.
All true friends of emancipation,
Haste to freedom's rail road station;
Quick into the cars get seated,
All is ready, and completed.
Put on the steam! Put on the steam!
Put on the steam! All are crying,
And the liberty flags are flying.
Put on the steam! Put on the steam!
Put on the steam! All are crying,
And the liberty flags are flying.
Hear the mighty car wheels humming!
Now look out! the engine's coming!
Church and statesmen! hear the thunder!
Clear the track! or you'll fall under.
Get off the track! Get off the track!
Get off the track! all are singing,
While the liberty bell is ringing.
Get off the track! Get off the track!
Get off the track! all are singing,
While the liberty bell is ringing.
What a message! Gets my American pride going was more than anything they could produce today. Go Blue! Go Ohio!!
anyone else here related to them??? They are of the better side of my family! Loved finding this. :-)
Simply Splendid!!!
hutchinsons were incredible! what a story
This was unbelievably awesome, thank you.
Another great one, and a nice version of this song!
Ya ever hear the version sung by Bobby Horton?? ua-cam.com/video/y07CQ1q5zxk/v-deo.html
YES! first time i get to be the first commentor. Superb song. GET OF THE TRACK!! :)
this song is fire
You can find a version of this song in IRwin Silber's Songs of the Civil War, 1960 Columbia Univesity Press.
does anybody where i could find the version with the "huzza huzza" at the end?
This one maybe?? ua-cam.com/video/y07CQ1q5zxk/v-deo.html
i think i have one. a cd called i think american homespun
It sounds as though they were caught up in the moment more than anything. Whatever the reason, it would be interesting to see a modern choral group try that.
"Get off the track" in the final verse should be shouted, not sung, as quoted in "Excelsior: Journals of the Hutchinson Family Singers," Dale Cockrell, Pendragon Press, 1989: "And when they came to the chorus-cry...the way they cried 'Get off the track'...they forgot the harmony and shouted after another...like an alarmed multitude of spectators, about to witness a terrible catastrophe...it was glorious to witness them alighting down again from their wild flight into the current of the song."
RE: I meant "way" not "was"
"And the tracks of 'The Magician'
Are but rail roads to perdition"
This line is a bit confusing. It seems like it's a reference to something, but I don't know what. It would have made more sense if they wrote something like this:
"And the tracks of the plantation
Are but railroads to damnation"
It's a reference to Martin Van Buren who was the original front runner in the 1844 democratic primary and who was known as the little magician.
+Josh Lewis
Thanks, the line makes a lot more sense with that information. Martin Van Buren and the Democratic Party didn't want to end slavery in the south, so for abolitionists they would have been seen as perpetuating a moral evil.
they surely hated their guts