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