AN AMERICAN NATION

To be free from a tyrant far across the sea, blood would be seen,

Men would gather as a vote would change the way life would be.

The right to live as they chose on an American land, gun in hand,

Farmers put down their pitchforks and swore to fight for their rights.

Militia was formed, sons were to take up arms, and on their land, a fight,

This is an American nation! Colonies of thirteen would stand together.

The British soldiers would march on land, ships of many upon the sea,

A war does not discriminate; it is not prejudiced, as men, women, and
Children do die.

Many will lie upon the land, forgotten as the years drift on by,

A patriot holds a flag of stars and stripes, strong in his hands, waving
As the battle rages.

Bullets fly, cannonballs ring loud in the sky, swords take away lives from
Both sides,

An American nation! Their spirits sing out from more than two hundred
Years ago,

Believed in and cared for a land so long ago, the American way has decayed,
Lost in today’s world.
Keith Garrett

   A REVOLUTION

They fired their guns, firing cannonballs into the air,

Listen for the sound under the smoke-filled skies, beneath
THE SETTING SUN.

Stand and fight! see as they march through a battlefield of endless,

Dying, fright,
The enemy is among us, they’ve come to take this land,

Across the sea, they traveled to take all that we have.

Children learn fast, boys become men overnight,

Arm yourself with a weapon, blood covers the land,

Freedom is the Issue at hand.

Day by day, seasons will change,

Beyond the snow-covered winters,

The heated Summer, we’ll still stand.

They too came to fight, we’re ready to conquer,

Echoes of our fight ring loud into the fiery, lit-up skies
By night.

A revolution, we stand united as loved ones die,

Our home will not be sacrificed; we’ll give our lives,

We will not be defeated, many will die,

Listen to the cries in the night.

             Keith Garrett  

           A REVOLUTION

They fired their guns, firing cannonballs into the air,


Listen for the sound under the smoke-filled skies, beneath the setting sun.


 Stand and fight! see as they march through a battlefield of endless, dying, fright.


 The enemy is among us, they've come to take this land,


 Across the sea, they traveled to take all that we have.


 Children learn fast, boys become men overnight,


Arm yourself with a weapon, blood covers the land,


 Freedom is the Issue at hand.


 Day by day, seasons will change,


Beyond the snow-covered winters,


 The heated Summer, we'll still stand.


They too came to fight, we're ready to conquer,


Echoes of our fight ring loud into the fiery, lit-up skies by night.


 A revolution, we stand united as loved ones die,


Our home will not be sacrificed; we'll give our lives,


 We will not be defeated, many will die,


 Listen to the cries in the night.                                                                         


           Keith Garrett  

The Revolutionary war began in seventeen seventy five,

Many would die,

In seventeen seventy six the would declare war and independence

Against the British empire.

From Delaware to Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts Bay,

Maryland, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Providence plan,

They stood together as one to have an American land.

General George Washington led this battle to be free,

Ships invaded the Bays, cannon fire echoed like drumbeats

Into many life-giving nights.

The sound of a death march across the open land,

Many a man would fall to the ground, and never again stand.

Hand to hand, they would take their stand,

Waving a new flag of colors, gunpowder scent filled

The land.

Two hundred and fifty years ago there was

War on our land,

Independence was declared, sacrifice of blood

Stained the hand.

On the fourth of July remember, the thousands

Who had died,

The war ended in seventeen -eighty three, listen

To the wind, hear their cries.

Keith Garrett