The Colored Volunteer
by Tom Craig (see other copy)
This should have said
Here's to the gallant fifty fourth
4th Para mistake, Here's to the Fourth.

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The Colored Volunteer

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Pub. by C. Magnus Frankfort St N.Y.

THE
COLORED VOLUNTEERS.

Fremont told us, when this war was first begun, 
How to save this Union, and the way it should be done,
But Kentucky swore so hard, and old Abe he had his fears,
So that's what's the matter with the Colored Volunteers.

CHORUS.—Give us a flag all free without a slave,
We will fight to defend it as our fathers did so brave
Onward boys, onward, it's the year of jubilee,
God bless America, the land of liberty.

Little Mack went to Richmond with three hundred thousand brave—
Said keep back the negroes and the Union he would save;
But Mack he was defeated, and the Union now in tears,
Is calling for the help of the Colored Volunteers.

CHORUS.—Give us a flag all free without a slave, &c.

Old Jeff he says he'll hang us if we dare to meet him armed—
It's a very big thing, but we are not at all alarmed:
He has first got to catch us before the way is clear,
And that's what's the matter with the Colored Volunteers.

CHORUS.—Give us a flag all free without a slave, &c.

Here's to the gallant Fourth which has not yet been tried,
They are willing and are ready with their brothers to divide;
General Birney leads us on, so we have no right to fear,
And that is the making of the Colored Volunteers.

CHORUS.—Give us a flag all free without a slave, &c.

500 Illustrated Ballads, lithographed and printed by
CHARLES MAGNUS, No. 12 Frankfort Street, New York.
Branch Office: No. 520 7th St., Washington, D. C.

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