Reply To The Bonnie Blue Flag chords by Traditional

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
         G                C            G                D7
We are a fighting for our Union, we're fighting for our trust,
      G                                   C          D7       G
we're fighting for that happy land, where sleeps our fathers’ dust.
             C                     G              D7
It cannot be dissevered, though it cost us bloody wars,
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we never can give up the land, where floats the stripes and stars.

Chorus:
   G       D7       C                G
Hurrah! Hurrah! for equal rights, hurrah!
   G            C                  D7                    G
Hurrah! for the good old flag that bears the stripes and stars!

Verse 2:
   G              C           G                D7
We trusted you as brothers, until you drew the sword,
     G                        C           D7     G
with impious hands at Sumpter you cut the silver cord.
                    C          G                 D7
So now you hear the bugles, we come, the sons of Mars,
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to rally round the brave old flag, that bears the stripes and stars.

Chorus:
   G       D7       C                G
Hurrah! Hurrah! for equal rights, hurrah!
   G            C                  D7                    G
Hurrah! for the good old flag that bears the stripes and stars!

Verse 3:
   G                C          G                D7
We do not want your cotton, we do not want your slaves,
     G                                 C         D7       G
but rather than divide the land, we'll fill your Southern graves.
                     C             G                  D7
With Lincoln for our chieftain, we wear our country's stars,
    G                                   C         D7          G
and rally round the brave old flag that bears the stripes and stars.

Chorus:
   G       D7       C                G
Hurrah! Hurrah! for equal rights, hurrah!
   G            C                  D7                    G
Hurrah! for the good old flag that bears the stripes and stars!

Verse 4:
   G                   C        G                 D7
We deem our cause most holy, we know we're in the right,
    G                             C     D7      G
and twenty million free men stand ready for the fight.
                  C            G                D7
Our pride is fair Columbia, no stain her beauty mars,
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on her we'll raise the brave old flag that bears the stripes and stars.

Chorus:
   G       D7       C                G
Hurrah! Hurrah! for equal rights, hurrah!
   G            C                  D7                    G
Hurrah! for the good old flag that bears the stripes and stars!

Verse 5:
    G                C           G               D7
And when this war is over, we'll each resume our home,
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and treat you still as brothers, where ever you may roam.
                         C               G                D7
We'll pledge the hand of friendship, and think no more of war,
    G                                    C         D7          G
but dwell in peace beneath the flag that bears the stripes and stars.

Chorus:
   G       D7       C                G
Hurrah! Hurrah! for equal rights, hurrah!
   G            C                  D7                    G
Hurrah! for the good old flag that bears the stripes and stars!