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Georgia prison song

Language: English

Every mail day, every mail day, I get a letter, son come home, o son
come home! How can I go? Shot guns and pistols all around me, to blow
me down. lf I had, if I had my thirty to twenty, I'd go today, I'd go
today. Yes, yes Lord, I'd go, I'd go today.

Ach, wie wenig verlangt der Sänger: Nur eine Waffe wünscht
er sich, wo es doch Tanks und Kanonen bedarf und schwerer Kämpfe
von Millionen, um einen Unschuldigen frei zu kriegen!


Input by John Versmoren

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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Date added to the website: 2003-10-12.

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