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SCHOOL SONG KNAPSACK.

Scotland's Burning.

Round in four parts. (Pat's Pick, page 79; Franklin Square No. 2 p. 137.) 3 Sharps

Scotland's burning, Scotland's burning.
 Look out ! Look out!
Fire! fire! fire! fire!
 Pour on water, pour on water


Old Black Joe.[1]

(Pat's Pick, page 5.)2 Sharps

Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay;
Gone are my friends from the cotton-fields away;
Gone from the earth to a better land, I know,
I hear their gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe."

Chorus—
  I'm coming, I'm coming,
  For my head is bending low;
  I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe."

Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain?
Why do I sigh that my friends come not again,
Grieving for forms now departed long ago?
I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe."

Chorus—I'm coming, I'm coming, etc.

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