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I never thought it would come down
to brothers fighting on Upton's Hill
Struggling just to stand, divided houses cease to be so

Mine eyes have seen the glory
Attention and review
Whose eyes have seen the soldiers?
Julia

She wrote a set of new words
to "John Brown's Body in the grave"
Printing this poetry, Atlantic Monthly
it spread like wildfire

Mine eyes have seen the glory
Attention and review
Whose eyes have seen the soldiers?
Never turning back

Then they cut short their visit
rebels charging from the west
Back in the carriage with a northern governor
Washington-bound

(chorus)

The lines arranged themselves in my brain
so I hastily arose
I shall lose this if I don't write it down now
through the last verse

(chorus)

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from MetroSongs, Volume 6: OUTATRAK, released November 30, 2015

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Jason Mendelson Washington, D.C.

Multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Jason Mendelson of Alexandria, Virginia created MetroSongs in 2010 with the goal of writing and recording a unique original song for each of the DC area's 91 Metro station locations, based on local history and character. The project was completed in April 2017 with Volumes 7 & 8. ... more

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