Handout 4
Politics - Musical/Rhythmic

My Party Led Me

by S. T. Johnson
Tune: "All The Way My Saviour Leads Me"

All the way my party led me. And they robbed me ev'ry day.
But I did not see my folly Till my home was took away.
Mortgaged farmers, wives and children, Rally to the Alliance call,
For, if you should longer tarry, Money kings will have it all.
For if you should longer tarry, Money kings will have it all.

All the way my party led me, and these wrongs I helped to make,
For the Democrats I hated, when the bloody shirt they'd shake;
Oh, how true did Abe, the prophet, tell us of this troubled day!
How the money kings would rob us, take our liberties away.

All the way my party led me, I was blind and could not see,
When I halloed and I shouted over party victory.
In our victory was defeat, as we now can plainly see,
For we're on the road to slavery, and must fight if we'd be free.

All the way my party led me, led me to the fix I'm in;
But I will not longer heed them, a new life I'll now begin.
Oh yes, farmers, day is breaking, scales now from our eyes do fall,
For we see the great injustice that's been done to one and all.

Source: Irwin Silber, Songs America Voted By (Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1988).