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The Earliest Negro Vocal Quartets (1894-1928)

The Bonnie Blue Flag

by Polk Miller's Old South Quartette

on The Earliest Negro Vocal Quartets (1894-1928) (2005), The Earliest Negro Vocal Quartets (1894-1928) (1991) Music of the Old South (2006)

We are a band of brothers
And native to the soil
Fighting for the property
We gained by honest toil

When our rights were threatened
The cry rose near and far
We raised up high the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star!

Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

First gallant South Carolina
Nobly made the stand
Then came Alabama
Who took her by the hand

Next quickly Mississippi
Georgia and Florida
All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

Ye men of valor, gather round
The banner of the right
Texas and fair Louisiana
Join us in the fight

Davis, our loved president
And Stephens statesmen are
Now rally round the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

And here's to old Virginia
The Old Dominion State
Who with the young Confederacy
At length has linked her fate

Impelled by her example
Now other states prepare
To hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

Then cheer, boys, cheer
Raise the joyous shout
For Arkansas and North Carolina
Now have both gone out

And let another rousing cheer
For Tennessee be given
The single star of the Bonnie Blue Flag
Has grown to be eleven

Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

Hurrah! Hurrah!
For Southern rights hurrah!
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag
That bears a single star

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