Born Fightin' - Ricky Warwick

My name is James McBride

And I’m almost nineteen

I sailed away from Derry

To follow some dream

I came to Philadelphia

With a bible in my hand

And God will be my witness

In the promised land

We were born fightin'

And we’ll die fightin'

'Till we belong

'Till we belong

We started pushing south

Down the wilderness trail

Across the Blueridge Mountains

And Virginia Plains

With the Shawnee and the Cherokees

Hiding all around

Left a quarter of our brothers

Laid beneath the ground

We were born fightin'

And we’ll die fightin'

'Till we belong

'Till we belong

Near the Shenandoah Valley

There’s a cabin and a church

We built it out of Rowan

And the chopped down Birch

Now there’s an army coming at us

With their red coats on

With their swords and their bayonets

And their muskets drawn

So we fought like devils

And we shouted like hell

And we stood our ground

While those redcoats fell

Then we fell to our knees

And we buried our dead

For the land of the free

That’s the price we paid

We were born fightin'

And we’ll die fightin'

'Till we belong

We were born fightin'

And we’ll die fightin'

'Till we belong

'Till we belong

'Till we belong

'Till we belong

'Till we belong

We were born fightin'

We were born fightin'

We were born fightin'

We were born fightin'

Until we belong