  The bill! the bill! how my heart will thrill At the passage of the People’s Homestead Bill! Of all the mighty nations in the East or in the West, The glorious Yankee nation is the greatest and the best; We have room for all creation, and our banner is unfurled, With a general invitation to the people of the world. Then come along, come along, make no delay, Come from every nation, come from every way; Our lands they are broad enough, don’t feel alarm, For Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us all a farm. St. Lawrence is our Northern line, far’s her waters flow, And the Rio Grande our Southern bound, way down in Mexico; While from the Atlantic Ocean, where the sun begins to dawn, We’ll cross the Rocky Mountains far away to Oregon. Then come along, etc. While the South shall raise the cotton, and the West the corn and pork, New England manufactures shall do up the finer work; For the deep and flowing water-falls that course along our hills, Are just the thing for washing sheep and driving cotton mills. Then come along, etc. Our fathers gave us liberty, but little did they dream The grand results to follow in this mighty age of steam; Our mountains, lakes, and rivers are now in a blaze of fire, While we send the news by lightning on the Telegraphic wire. While Europe’s in commotion, and her monarchs in a fret, We’re teaching them a lesson which they never can forget; And this they fast are learning, Uncle Sam is not a fool, For the people do their voting, and the children go to school. Then come along, etc. The brave in every nation are joining heart and hand, And flocking to America, the real promised land; And Uncle Sam stands ready with a child upon each arm, To give them all a welcome to a lot upon his farm. Then come along, etc. A welcome, warm and hearty, do we give the sons of toil, To come to the West and settle and labor on Free Soil; We’ve room enough and land enough, they needn’t feel alarmed— Oh! come to the land of Freedom and vote yourself a farm. Then come along, etc. Yes! we’re bound to lead the nations, for our motto’s “Go Ahead,” And we’ll carry out the principles for which our fathers bled; No monopoly of Kings and Queens, but this is the Yankee plan, Free Trade to Emigration and Protection unto man. Then come along, etc. We’ve a glorious Declaration to protect us in our rights, An instrument of Freedom, for the blacks as well as whites, And the day is surely coming when Liberty’s bright sun Shall shine with noonday splendor in the land of Washington. Then come along, etc. |
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