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Say brothers have you seen the massa with the mustache on his face

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Going 'long the road sometime this morning like he's gonna leave this place

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He's seen the smoke way up the river where the Lincoln gunboats lay

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He took his hat and left very sudden and I spec' he's runaway

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The massa run haha, and we will stay hoho

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It must be now that kingdom's coming in the year of jubilo