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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The Columbia Chapter would love to renew a tradition at the upcoming convention…that is singing out loud and strong . Below and attached you will find the words to some of the most traditional songs. Please bring the words and your voices with you and join us for the fun.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Gene Coulter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>PS we plan on sending out the words to a couple of the newer numbers as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Glory, Glory Federation -Battle Song of the NFB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Tune: “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Words by Floyd Fields and Josephine Huff<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Recorded by the NFB of Pennsylvania.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>1. . Blind eyes have seen the vision of the Federation way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>New White Cane legislation brings the dawn of a new day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The right of the blind to organize is truly here to stay.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Our cause goes marching on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(Refrain:) Glory, glory, Federation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Glory, glory, Federation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Glory, glory, Federation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Our cause goes marching on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>2. We have seen it in the action of four hundred chapters strong.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Good leadership and courage have righted many a wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Let’s aid NFB’s program and join in its battle song.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Our cause goes marching on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(Refrain:) Glory, glory, Federation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Glory, glory, Federation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Glory, glory, Federation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Our cause goes marching on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>3. TenBroek has sounded trumpet which shall never sound “retreat.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>We have sifted out the hearts of blind before our judgment seat.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Oh, be swift all blind to answer, and be jubilant your feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Our cause goes marching on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(Refrain:) Glory, glory, Federation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Glory, glory, Federation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Glory, glory, Federation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Our cause goes marching on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>4. To aid the blind’s long struggle we have formed the NFB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>To free them from their bondage of workshop and agency,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>To give a hand to all the blind wherever they may be.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Our cause goes marching on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(Refrain:) Glory, glory, Federation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Glory, glory, Federation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Glory, glory, Federation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Our cause goes marching on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>https://nfb.org/images/nfb/audio/nfb_songs/01-battle-hymn-of-the-nfb.mp3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Recorded by the Cane Raisers of the Sligo Creek Chapter, National Federation of the Blind<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>**The Library Song<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Tune: “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Words by Curtis Willoughby<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>1. At the mailbox I sit thinking of the book I need,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>And the library so cold and far away.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>And the tears they fill my eyes ‘spite of all that I can do<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>When I think of what the library will say.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(Refrain:) “Wait, wait, wait, your book’s not in yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>We’ll try to have it next year without fail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>We are not your corner store. We cannot do any more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>After all, we know just one percent read Braille.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>2. ‘Cause they’re running out of space. “For your book there is no place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The demand for it, you see, is far too low.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>How about a light romance or a novel set in France,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>For we mostly serve the elderly, you know.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(Refrain:) “Wait, wait, wait, your book’s not in yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>We’ll try to have it next year without fail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>We are not your corner store. We cannot do any more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>After all, we know just one percent read Braille.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>3. So at home and on the job I am waiting for the day<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>When the mailman will come up to my door<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>With the book that I have sought and not the one they thought<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>That my profile showed I should be asking for.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(Refrain:) “Wait, wait, wait, your book’s not in yet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>We’ll try to have it next year without fail.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>We are not your corner store. We cannot do any more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>After all, we know just one percent read Braille.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>**The Bureau Song<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Tune: “In the Garden”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Words by Ted Young<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>1. I went to the bureau alone<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Straight from school and a little bit nervous.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I asked for a job, then the counseling slob<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Signed me up for two years rehab service.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(Refrain:) Then they tested me, and they rested me,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>And they told me there was some hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>With the anger I bear as I tarry there<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>No blind guy should have to cope.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>2. I took all my medical exams<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>And the best eye tests I could get.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Then they tested my means, which was four cans of beans,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Three cans of beer, one cassette.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(Refrain:) Then they tested me, and they rested me,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>And they told me there was some hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>With the anger I bear as I tarry there<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>No blind guy should have to cope.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>3. I finally got a job on my own<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Breaking loose from the bureau’s long tether.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I called and said, “I found work,” and the counseling jerk<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Said, “Close case, ‘cause we’ve done this together!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(Refrain) (Refrain:) Then they tested me, and they rested me,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>And they told me there was some hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>With the anger I bear as I tarry there<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>No blind guy should have to cope.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>**I’ve Been Workin’ in the Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Tune: “I’ve Been Workin’ on the Railroad”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I’ve been working in the workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>All the livelong day,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>And with the wages that they pay me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>It’s just to pass my time away.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>And when I ask about more money,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>They give me the big lie.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>“We’d like to give you lots of raises,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>But you’d lose your SSI.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>“Work is therapy,”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>They keep telling me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I’ve heard it till I’ve had my fill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>‘Cause if it’s therapy,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I wish they’d let me be.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>This therapy’s a bitter pill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>