Yes, went they through the Lehigh Valley   To Lake Erie past Virginia   And the land called out its challenge   Bring your men to match our mountains   See the green Ohio Valley   See the Cumberland, the Wabash      On the Tennessee they floated   On great rafts to the Mississippi   And the Cherokee and Shawnee   And the Creek and The Ojibwa   And the Choctaw and the Quapaw   And all the tribes along the rivers      [Incomprehensible] that they were coming   That the white man was upon them   They built their homes along the rivers   Built their churches, brought their preachers   Came upon the white misery   Stopped before the shining mountains      Many died from the beginning   For the freedom of America   Like that day down in New Orleans