Slavery's Passed Away and Other Songs


Slavery's Passed Away.

As sung in Edward Harrigan's Drama,

"PETE."

_Words by EDWARD HARRIGAN._

_Music by DAVE BRAHAM._

Copyright, 1887, by Wm. A. Pond & Co.


Oh child come to me and just sit down by my knee,
I'll tell that same old story just once more;
Of dark, clouded years, oh, so full of bitter tears,
In those bondage days of long before the war.
In rice-field and in cane, there the black man felt the pain,
The driver's whip it cut him ev'ry day;
Our good Lord above, with his never dying love,
Made that cruel, cruel slavery pass'd away.

Oh child, in those times then I liv'd among the pines,
Yes, in an old log cabin I was born;
Then I heard the moan when the mothers lost their own,
In those bondage days, oh thank the Lord they're gone.
That Iron chain and band they grow rusty in this land,