Earl Robinson — Old Abe Lincoln

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[Intro]
Em


[Verse 1]
    Em
Now old Abe Lincoln,
  G         C          Em
A great big giant of a man was he

Yes, sir.
       Em         G       Em
He was born in an old log cabin,
       C            A
And he worked for a living,
          B
Splitting rails.
    Em
Now Abe he knew right from wrong,
    Am    F              B
For he was honest as the day is long,
                           Em
And these are the words he said.


[Chorus]
     Em                G    Am
This country, with its institutions,
  A            G#           B
Belongs to the people who inhabit it.
     Em                G     Am
This country, with its Constitution,
  A               G
Belongs to us who live in it.
                         Em
Whenever they shall grow weary
   G     Em     D
Of the existing government

They can exercise their constitutional right
    B7
Of amending it,
         Em  D    G    C
Or their revolutionary right
      F         B   Em
To dismember or overthrow it!


[Verse 2]
   Em
Oh Abe once ran
         G       C        Em
A little country store in Salemtown,

Illinois.
      Em        G        Em
And a woman she paid him six pence
C             A
More than she ought to have done,

A mistake.
   Em
So off through the storm old Abe went,
   Am        F          B
He paid that woman back every cemt,
                      Em
For Abe was an honest man.
    Em      G            Em
Now Abe was close to the ground,
      C          Em
Oh he towered up six foot four

Bare feet.
        Em           G        Em
And his heart was as big as a whole
    C                  A
Country, with room for more
            B
Like folks, too.
   Em
He never forgot from whence he came,
          Am            F               B
Though he landed in the White House and got great fame,
                     Em
For he was a working man.


[Chorus]
     Em                G    Am
This country, with its institutions,
  A            G#           B
Belongs to the people who inhabit it.
     Em                G     Am
This country, with its Constitution,
  A               G
Belongs to us who live in it.
                         Em
Whenever they shall grow weary
   G     Em     D
Of the existing government

They can exercise their constitutional right
    B7
Of amending it,
         Em  D    G    C
Or their revolutionary right
      F         B   Em
To dismember or overthrow it!


[Verse 3]
    Em
Now old Abe's eyes
     G       C         Em
Were set way back deep in his head,

A thinking man.
        Em          G           Em
But you didn't need learning to understand
     C       A
What old Abe said
B
Listen to this.
Em
This republic will never be free
                   A      F    B
Till a black man's out of slavery
                        Em
And that made the Civil War.
    Em
Now sometimes Abe
   G           C            Em
He wavered and shook like a great tall tree,

That's true.
    Em              G           C
For he wanted peace between the states
   C         A
In this country,
B
Like the Bible said.
    Em
But Abe never crawled when the showdown came,
                 A       F        B
Like some people now who take his name,
                       B
He beat those slavemen down.
     Em
Now old Abe Lincoln's
G        C          Em
Dead and gone these eighty years,

A great man.
    Em    G        Em
But every year the party he made
     C         A
Says Lincoln's theirs,

No, sir.
    E
For if old Abe were living right now,
       A                             F          B
To the man and at the bench, and the man at the plow,
                         Em
These are the words he'd say.


[Chorus]
     Em                G    Am
This country, with its institutions,
  A            G#           B
Belongs to the people who inhabit it.
     Em                G     Am
This country, with its Constitution,
  A               G
Belongs to us who live in it.
                         Em
Whenever they shall grow weary
   G     Em     D
Of the existing government

They can exercise their constitutional right
    B7
Of amending it,
         Em  D    G    C
Or their revolutionary right
      F         B   Em
To dismember or overthrow it!

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