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The Ghosts of Alexandria Lyrics
He was the poster child of miserable
He was in love with a colored boy
No chance for hope in a land of servitude
And now the ghosts of Alexandria
Hang in the halls like the boys on the oak
To remind us that we’re only 13 knots away
From repeating our mistakes
No one can see on the inside
No one can hear on the outside
No one will speak the name to blame
The dead sing
It's not over
She was poster child of ritual
She was in love with the U.S.A.
She was from some place but she could not tell us where
And now the ghosts of Alexandria
Labor the fields like amber waves of grain
To remind us that we are only a minimum wage
A bowl of rice a day
From repeating our mistakes
It's not over
No one can see on the inside
No one can hear on the outside
No one will speak the name to blame
The dead sing
And we watched the summer turn to the Autumn of Glory
He was in love with a colored boy
No chance for hope in a land of servitude
And now the ghosts of Alexandria
Hang in the halls like the boys on the oak
To remind us that we’re only 13 knots away
From repeating our mistakes
No one can hear on the outside
No one will speak the name to blame
The dead sing
It's not over
She was in love with the U.S.A.
She was from some place but she could not tell us where
And now the ghosts of Alexandria
Labor the fields like amber waves of grain
To remind us that we are only a minimum wage
A bowl of rice a day
From repeating our mistakes
No one can hear on the outside
No one will speak the name to blame
The dead sing
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Excellent song about the hidden evils of pur nations history. The Ghosts of Alexandria Refer to a supposedly haunted town in Virginia with a racist history. The first verse refers to the lynchings (only thirteen knots away) and slavery (no chance of hope in a land of servitude;)
The second refers to womens suffrage, and the workers movement of the 1940s. the album overall addresses workers struggles vs the ruling class through out history. An excellent topic
The autumn of glory is a book about the Tennessee confederate army