Jefferson’s Dream

Lyrics

My name is Thomas Jefferson, I wrote the Declaration
And I set the stage to free the slaves although I owned two hundred of them;
when I wrote that Document “We hold these truths self-evident,
all men are equal” what I meant was all humanity.

Chorus:
Freedom, Reason, everything in season,
Liberty, Equality, patience friend, this won’t be easy;
Reason, Freedom, that’s what I believe in,
America of Thee I sing.

I served General Washington, I had to battle Hamilton,
I wrote my Notes with every hope we’d work the land and love the land;
all Federalists, Republicans, John Adams and James Madison,
I came to embrace both of them, they came to embrace me.

Chorus:
Freedom, Reason, everything in season, Liberty, Equality, educating everybody ... etc.

“Are bell, are storm,” you can’t enslave a man for long,
“I trembled for my nation’s laws, when God is just” and we are wrong;
I passed the torch to Abraham to use my Declaration and save the Union, save the Nation, ending slavery.

Chorus:
Freedom, Reason, everything in season, Liberty, Equality, “Nature’s Aristocracy” ... etc.

I lived in France, I looked to Rome, Virginia was always home,
I built my house down in the South, my mountain villa Monticello; all my family, my dear children, Martha, Sally, all you pilgrims, welcome, Thomas Jefferson, says welcome to my door.

Chorus:
Freedom, Reason, everything in season, Liberty, Equality, “Toleration,” that’s my creed ... etc.