The Gettysburg Address Lyrics

The song The Gettysburg Address is performed by Johnny Cash in the album named America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song in the year 2008 .



"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.


Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.


But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."




Johnny Cash - America: A 200-Year Salute in Story and Song

Mar 2008

  1. Opening Dialogue
  2. Paul Revere
  3. Begin West Movement
  4. The Road To Kaintuck
  5. To The Shining Mountains
  6. The Battle Of New Orleans
  7. Southwestward
  8. Remember the Alamo
  9. Opening The West
  10. Lorena
  11. The Gettysburg Address
  12. The West
  13. Big Foot
  14. Like A Young Colt
  15. Mister Garfield
  16. A Proud Land
  17. Big Battle
  18. On Wheels And Wings
  19. Come Take A Trip In My Airship
  20. Reaching For The Stars
  21. These Are My People


The Gettysburg Address