You Remember the Time.

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TUNE -- "You remember it, don't you."

You remember the time when our sires sought the West,
To find a safe home for the friends they loved best --
How each hill and each valley a foeman concealed.
And each plain the red warrior in armor revealed?
You remember it, don't you?
Oh! think of it, won't you?
Yes, yes, of all this remembrance shall last,
Long after the present fades into the past.

You remember the era, when Wayne with his legion,
Drove the merciless foe from this blood-sprinkled region,
The gallant young soldier the foremost in fight,
Who pursued the wild foe in his perilous flight?
You remember it, don't you?
Oh! think of it, won't you?
Yes, yes, of all this the remembrance shall last,
Long after the present fades into the past.

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You remember, years after, in the progress of time
How this same gallant soldier, who was then in his prime,
Drove far from our border the wild savage foe,
And the Britton, at Thames, Meigs, and Tippecanoe?
You remember it, don't you?
Oh! think of it, won't you?
Yes, yes of all this the remembrance shall last,
Long after the present fades into the past.

You remember the man who, when war's dread commotion,
Spread over the land, and the fathomless ocean --
Or when peace cast her blessings our wide country o'er,
Who was ever a father and friend to the poor?
You remember him, don't you?
Oh! think of him, won't you?
Yes, yes, of this man, the remembrance shall last,
Long after the present fades into the past.

When tyrant oppression walks abroad in the land,
And spreads want and disaster with a merciless hand
Who boldly steps forward her hope to renew?
'Tis the gallant old soldier of Tippecanoe!
You remember him, don't you?
You will think of him, won't you?
Oh, yes, of all this, the remembrance will last,
Long after the present fades into the past.

And when the oppressors are scattered afar,
Their forces all vanquished and sunken their star --
The drama then ended, our hopes bright and true,
He will join in a concert to Tippecanoe.
And we'll remember each blunder,
While he's flying with plunder,
Of the wily magician caught napping at last.
Long after the spoilers from pow'r are cast.