Tear It Down

[Verse 1] You say I miss the old ways, but not like that Dog whistling fool of a king Don't you know that old Dixieland Is more than dirt roads and simple ways? [Chorus] Tear it down, tear it down, that Ragged cross of race [Verse 2] I don't guess that we deserve all this The beauty and the light The way the firefly returns in June As dusk sings her lullaby All the lives that fertilized And the manifested hand The human bondage that provides The bounty of this land [Chorus] Tear it down, ah, tear it down, that Ragged cross of race The stone and the ore bеaten into monuments that Rose out of hatе [Verse 3] I was that lonely kid in old cinemas Watching Gone with the Wind Tradition runs the core of me The song of the south, "Whistling Dixie" again Oh, that tune lived and breathed in me And it wants to live again We must fight with all our might To kill that racist hymn [Chorus] And tear it down, ah, tear it down, that Ragged cross of race The stone and the ore beaten into monuments that Rose out of hate [Outro] The epitaph I long to read is "Here lies slavery"