Oh, a million marching armies and
a million marching men
Have won the dark -skinned countries
and lost them back again
But now the word has gone to
every fallen land
That this old world is changing hands
From the master to the servant, from
the owner to the slaves
Colonial days are buried in a
deep and dirty grave
It's so easy to see and
well to understand
That this old world is changing hands
Hey,
Washington and
Jefferson and
Patrick
Henry too
They knew what they were doing
when they started something new
It was in this giant land
of ours that it all began
When this old world was changing hands
From the master to the servant,
from the owner to the slave
Colonial days are buried
in a deep and dirty grave
It's so easy to see and
well to understand
That this old world is changing hands
Hey, when
World
War
II was rolling by,
the tide was on its way.
Many countries had to listen to
the words they had to say.
And the word was spread to millions,
all of yellow, black, and tan, that this old world
was changing hands.
From the master to the servant, from the owner to the slaves,
colonial days are buried in
a deep and dirty grave.
It's so easy to see an
d well to understand
That this old world is changing hands
Now
Africa and
Asia and the
Caribbean shores
No longer can be counted
as the spoils of
the wars
They were bought and sold together,
now together
they will stand,
cause this old world is changing hands.
From the master to the servant,
from the owner to the slave,
Colonial days are buried in a
deep and dirty grave.
It's so easy to see and
well to understand
that this old world is changing hands,
that this old world is changing hands.
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