| SOUTHRONS, hear your Country call you! | |
| Up, lest worse than death befall you! | |
| To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie! | |
| Lo! all the beacon-fires are lighted, | |
| Let all hearts be now united! | 5 |
| To arms! To arms! To arms! in Dixie! | |
| Advance the flag of Dixie! | |
| Hurrah! hurrah! | |
| For Dixie's land we 'll take our stand, | |
| To live or die for Dixie! | 10 |
| To arms! To arms! | |
| And conquer peace for Dixie! | |
| To arms! To arms! | |
| And conquer peace for Dixie! | |
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| Hear the Northern thunders mutter! | 15 |
| Northern flags in South winds flutter! | |
| Send them back your fierce defiance! | |
| Stamp upon the accursed alliance! | |
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| Fear no danger! Shun no labor! | |
| Lift up rifle, pike, and sabre! | 20 |
| Shoulder pressing close to shoulder, | |
| Let the odds make each heart bolder! | |
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| How the South's great heart rejoices | |
| At your cannons' ringing voices! | |
| For faith betrayed and pledges broken, | 25 |
| Wrongs inflicted, insults spoken. | |
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| Strong as lions, swift as eagles, | |
| Back to their kennels hunt these beagles! | |
| Cut the unequal bonds asunder! | |
| Let them hence each other plunder! | 30 |
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| Swear upon your Country's altar | |
| Never to submit or falter, | |
| Till the spoilers are defeated, | |
| Till the Lord's work is completed. | |
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| Halt not till our Federation | 35 |
| Secures among earth's Powers its station! | |
| Then at peace, and crowned with glory, | |
| Hear your children tell the story! | |
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| If the loved ones weep in sadness, | |
| Victory soon shall bring them gladness; | 40 |
| To arms! | |
| Exultant pride soon banish sorrow, | |
| Smiles chase tears away to-morrow. | |
| To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie! | |
| Advance the flag of Dixie! | 45 |
| Hurrah! hurrah! | |
| For Dixie's land we take our stand, | |
| And live or die for Dixie! | |
| To arms! To arms! | |
| And conquer peace for Dixie! | 50 |
| To arms! To arms! | |
| And conquer peace for Dixie! | |
