====== #305 - Ho! For Carolina ======
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  *Composer:
    *Ann Judson Battle Harrell (1834-1906), 1861
  *Also known as:
    *Ho! For Carolina, That's the Land for Me
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
Let no heart in sorrow weep for other days;\\
Let no idle dreamers tell in melting lays\\
Of the merry meetings in the rosy bowers--\\
For there's no land on earth like this fair land of ours.\\
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Ho! for Carolina! that's the land for me!\\
In her happy borders roam the brave and free,\\
And her bright-eyed daughters! none can fairer be--\\
Oh! it is the land of love and sweet liberty!\\
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Down in Carolina grows the lofty pine,\\
And her groves end forests bear the scented vine;\\
Here are peaceful homes, too, nestling 'mid the flowers--\\
Oh! there's no land on earth like this fair land of ours.\\
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Come to Carolina in the summer time,\\
When the luscious fruits are hanging in their prime,\\
And the maidens singing in the leafy bowers--\\
Oh! there's no land on earth like this fair land of ours!\\
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Her patriot sons are peaceful, modest, too, and brave,\\
The first to spurn the shackles intended for the slave;\\
Disdaining boastful tyrants, they trust in duty's powers--\\
Oh! there are no men on earth more nobly true than ours!\\
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All her girls are charming, graceful, too, and gay,\\
Happy as the blue-birds in the month of May;\\
And they steal your hearts by their magic powers--\\
Oh! there are no girls on earth that can compare with ours!\\
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Behold her vales and forests, her sparkling brooks and rills,\\
And fields of golden harvests, her mountains and her hills,\\
All robed in fairest beauty with nature's sweetest flowers--\\
Oh! who would not be proud of this heritage of ours?\\
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    *William Bernard Harrell (1823-1906), 1861