Jefferson and Liberty

[Verse 1]
The night of fire is yet to come
The tyrant shadow down the years
Demands we kneel or take the gun
And go shed blood instead of our tears

[Chorus]
So rejoice, Columbia's sons, rejoice!
To tyrants never bend the knee
But pledge your heart and hand and voice
To Jefferson and Liberty

[Verse 2]
"Every twenty years," he said
The time is ten times overpast
To raise rebellion's fiery head
And cast off tyranny's shell at last!

[Chorus]
So rejoice, Columbia's sons, rejoice!
To tyrants never bend the knee
But pledge your heart and hand and voice
To Jefferson and Liberty

[Verse 3]
No man is good nor wise enough
To rule another, or disown
The rights of every woman and man
To live and let live and be left alone

[Chorus]
So rejoice, Columbia's sons, rejoice!
To tyrants never bend the knee
But pledge your heart and hand and voice
To Jefferson and Liberty

[Verse 4]
The starry banner that did fly
O'er freedom's bloody barricade
Now flaps and fades in foreign skies
Or palaces that Empire made

[Alternate Chorus]
So arise, Columbia's sons, arise!
Arise that you might yet be free
Cast off the forces that made lies
Of Jefferson and Liberty

[Verse 5]
The world that once in hope did watch
A struggle for democracy
Cries: “Have Columbia's sons forgot
Jefferson and Liberty?”

[Alternate Chorus]
So arise, Columbia's sons, arise!
Arise that you might yet be free
Cast off the forces that made lies
Of Jefferson and Liberty

[Verse 6]
But we, the heirs of Jefferson
Like ancient Sons of Liberty
Will bear in need the rebel's gun
And never bow to tyranny

[Alternate Chorus]
So arise, Columbia's sons, arise!
Arise that you might yet be free
Cast off the forces that made lies
Of Jefferson and Liberty