Paul Revere

Johnny Cash

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In April of 1775 this great nation started coming to life. Old King George didn`t like it one bit so he proceeded to throw him a royal fit. He told his generals : Better get `em back in line! Make `em pay my taxes now America is mine! Stop that independence talk before it gets around or it`s gonna be hard to hold them rebels down! Well the King was talking `bout the men like Paul Revere and the Minutemen who held their dream of independence dear. They kept their eyes on the British they watched them day and night they knew very soon they`d get their chance to stand and fight. Yes they knew that the British would be moving any hour so they arranged a signal in the Northend church tower. Paul was watching when the tower showed a light and he started on his midnight ride. He jumped on his horse hooves started a humming he screamed out his warning: Redcoats are comin! Better get your guns and your fighting breeches on they`re comin` and they`re eight hundred strong. Next morning at Concord and Lexington town the spirit of freedom turned the Redcoats around. When we praise the men who made that mighty nation we have here then let`s remember Paul Revere yes let`s remember Paul Revere. I guarantee you somethin and I wanna tell you all that we never would been here if it hadn`t been for Paul. Yes Sir I surely doubt us ever bein here if it hadn`t been for that man on that horse named mr revere

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Cette chanson raconte l'histoire de Paul Revere, un héros américain qui a joué un rôle crucial dans le début de la Révolution américaine en 1775. Elle évoque le mécontentement face au règne du roi Georges et comment ce dernier tentait de réprimer les aspirations d'indépendance des colonies. Les patriotes, dont Paul Revere faisait partie, surveillaient les mouvements des troupes britanniques, sachant qu'ils auraient bientôt l'occasion de défendre leur liberté. L'alarme donnée par Revere, à travers un signal lumineux, a lancé son fameux trajet nocturne pour avertir les colons que les "Redcoats" venaient. Cette action a été décisive lors des affrontements à Concord et Lexington, qui ont marqué le début d'une lutte pour l'indépendance. Le contexte de cette chanson s'inscrit dans une époque charnière de l'histoire américaine, où les tensions entre les colonies et la couronne britannique atteignaient leur paroxysme, menaçant les rêves de liberté et de démocratie des colonisateurs.

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