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History Repeats Itself
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Cab Calloway
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Glory, glory, hallelujah
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His truth is marching on
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This is a strange but true story
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Which proves that history
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Does repeat itself
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And the events depicted here
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Happened just one-hundred years apart
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Both President Lincoln and
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President Kennedy were concerned
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With the issue of civil rights
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Lincoln was elected in 1860
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Kennedy was elected in 1960
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One hundred years apart
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Both were shot from behind in the head
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Their successors, both named Johnson
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Were Southern Democrats
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With seats in the Senate
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Andrew Johnson was born
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In eighteen-hundred and eight
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Lyndon Johnson was born
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In nineteen-hundred and eight
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One hundred years apart
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John Wilkes Booth, the man
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Who shot Lincoln was born in
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Eighteen-hundred and thirty-nine
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Lee Harvey Oswald, the man
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Who shot Kennedy was born in
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Nineteen-hundred and thirty-nine
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One hundred years apart
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Booth and Oswald were Southerners
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Favoring unpopular ideas
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Booth and Oswald were both
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Assassinated before going to trial
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Both presidents wives lost children
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Whrough death while in the White House
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Both presidents were killed on a Friday
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And in the presence of their wives
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President Lincoln's secretary
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Whose name was Kennedy
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Advised him not to go to the theater
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President Kennedy's secretary
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Whose name was Lincoln
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Advised him not to go to Dallas
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John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln
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In a theater and ran to a warehouse
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Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy
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From a warehouse and ran to a theater
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The names Lincoln and Kennedy
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Each contain seven letters
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The names Andrew Johnson
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And Lyndon Johnson
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Each contain thirteen letters
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The names John Wilkes Booth
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And Lee Harvey Oswald
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Each contain fifteen letters
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And friends, it is true
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History does repeat itself
History repeats itself A.O.S.
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