David Rose lyrics

Artist  : Clutch 
Song : David Rose



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Old John Brown left Kansas
Before the blood
had dried
And as he rode his head did
shine
Like the sun in mid July

In a
tiny farm house
By Brunswick B & O
He
warmed his boots by the fireplace
And read
aloud from Samuel

David rose to lead the
Philistines
With five smooth stones and a
sling

One October morning
His army did
approach
The armory that sat between
The
Potomac and Shenandoah

The engine house
flung open
With report of several guns
When
it was done he looked upon
The bodies of his
dying sons

David rose to lead the
Philistines
With five smooth stones and a
sling

Throughout our history there are
those ghosts
Compelled to illustrate our
dreads and hopes
Victors hang in pictures,
losers from ropes
Regardless, they all swing
in the same boat

In South Hampton county
'round 1831
Nat Turner prayed, and the corn
stalks swayed
A voice rose up
And his ax
was raised

In the planter's big
house
They went from room to room
When it
was done they rode along
To liberate
Jerusalem

David rose to lead the
Philistines
With five smooth stones and a
sling