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Sons Of LibertyOnce an honest man could go from sunrise to its setWithout encountering agents of his state or government But a sorry cloud of tyranny has fallen across the land Brought on by hollow men, who did not understand That for centuries our forefather have fought and often died To keep themselves unto themselves, to fight the rising tide And that if in the smallest battles we surrender to the state We enter in a darkness whence we never shall escape When they raise their hands up our lives to possess To know our souls, to drag us down, we'll resist. Watt Tyler led the people in 1381 To meet the king at Smithfield and issue this demand: That Winchester's should be the only law across the land The law of old King Alfred's time, of free and honest |