| Listen while I tell you the hard luck story
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| About a man named Jack McDuff
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| He believed in the God and the glory
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| But he just wasn’t tough enough
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| I believe in the freedom song
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| Long live liberty
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| I believe in the freedom song
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| But I’ll choose my own destiny
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| Well, they took him and they beat him
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| Underneath that old hanging tree
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| Saying, Jack, you must die
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| What will your last words be?
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| Jack, he hung his head back
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| Long live liberty
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| I believe in the freedom song
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| Doesn’t matter what you do to me
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| With a rope around his neck they left him hanging
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| High on that old hanging tree
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| On her knees his wife was screaming
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| Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy
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| I believe in the freedom song
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| Long live-a the liberty
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| I believe in that freedom song
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| Doesn’t matter what you do to me |