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Southampton Insurrection
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Blood of the men, blood of the women, blood of the children, blood of the master!
Blood spilled by hands calloused by cotton, those same hands now clinched will break their chains!
Kill them before the wake! Do not let them cry out!
We must burn this cursed place! Will, bring a torch!
There is a fire at the plantation house! (There is a fire, plantation house)
The master’s world is burning. Their field hands set it ablaze (The master’s world burns, fields set ablaze)
There is a village in the swamp land filled with former slaves (Great Dismal Swampland, filled with freed slaves)
Southampton’s insurrection will seek refuge there… (Southampton’s in fear of slave revolt)
House to house the rebels creep through the night
Some on horseback, some on foot, all move with purpose!
Spilling blood of masters, sparing no one!
Taking rifles and horses as they go
Beating folks to death with a fencepost
Riding out! Rebels surround the next house! Keeping word from spreading
Will, bring me a torch!
Cut them down! No whites escape! They all die tonight!
Burn this plantation to the ground!
Dawn approaches. We must recruit more folk, grow this insurrection
Will, ride to the north, we’ll regroup after each of us has grown their strength
Free all the slaves you find burn all the plantations
Go quickly now! We meet in one day at Jerusalem
Did you see him riding on his horse? Nat Turner, the Prophet!
He leads an army of free slaves, he’s broken their chains!
A band emerges from the woods
Fires at my neighbor’s house
Screams from my neighbor’s house
The rebels point at my house
Now they have seen me
Now they approach me
The rumors are true, there is an insurrection, its leader standing in front of me
Now it is my time, these rebels will surely kill me. I will not live to see another dawn…
But Nat did spare me! He turned his men around, told them that I’m no master
Nat said to his men “this man does not think that he is better than us”
There is a fire at the plantation house! (There is fire, plantation house)
The master’s world is burning. Their field hands set it ablaze (Master’s world burns, fields set ablaze)
There is a village in the swamp land filled with former slaves (Great Dismal Swampland, filled with freed slaves)
Southampton’s insurrection will seek refuge there… (Southampton’s in fear of slave revolt)
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Go in the Wilderness I: The Republic According to Wilbur
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Go in the Wilderness II: Dawn Approaches
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The Battle of Jerusalem
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A Black Hand Reaches Over the Sun
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Go in the Wilderness III
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Come on down to the swamp lil moma, the swamp people treat you just right!
Come on down to the swamp lil moma, I’ll show you a good time!
Swamp people know that workin’ ain’t livin,’ swamp people do it just right!
We work and we play and we love and we eat and we sleep real good each night!
We ain’t got no masters here, we work hard for us and no one else
We ain’t got no violence here, but don’t come tryin’ to take what's ours!
Come on down to the swamp lil moma, the swamp people treat you just right!
Come on down to the swamp lil moma, I’ll show you a good time!
Swamp people know how to treat their women, they ain’t their man’s slave, that’s right!
If you don’t like your man just throw him out the cabin, if he don’t leave we’ll give him a good fright!
We don’t let no one go hungry (just don’t go causing hunger now!)
We share the fruits of our bounty (unless you’re the sheriff!)
Come on down to the swamp lil moma, the swamp people treat you just right!
Come on down to the swamp lil moma, I’ll show you a good time!
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The Southampton Examiner II & III: Blood in the Swamp / The Assembly Considers Abolition
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Fire at the Plantation House San Francisco, California
One-human prog metal project based in San Francisco, CA. I like writing music about how the world could be if we stop fucking it up.
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