| Waiting, waiting for the red coats to come
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| When all I can here in my frozen ear
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| Is ten thousand drums, ten thousand drums
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| Johnny, Johnny don’t be afraid
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| We can whip those red coats
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| Sitting in the shade, sitting in the shade
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| We’ve got the best in all the rest in General Washington
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| And when we meet those red coats, watch those red coats run
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| Throwing down their drum, throwing down their drum
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| Listen, listen Johnny better get your gun
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| Cause we ain’t putting soldiers
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| Behind ten thousand drums, behind ten thousand drums
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| Running, running Johnny watch them run
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| We finally whipped that red coat
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| Finally stopped those drums, we stopped ten thousand drums
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| We’re the best of all the rest, us Yankee son of a guns
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| We can tell our mammy how we made them run
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| Throwing down their drum, throwing down their drum
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| We’re the best of all the rest, us Yankee son of a guns
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| We can tell our mammy how we made them run
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| Throwing down their drum, throwing down their drum
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| Ten thousand drums |