Journey to Independence

A story so true, my old Mama told in assurance,
of a people so endowed with natural abundance,
But the heads in ignorance, her secret do advertise,
Unto strangers of peace and religion in disguise,

Whose deceit they hid with the Bible as bait,
Promising salvation while destruction they await,
And peace they preach indeed onto bondage,
While our fathers, their heart do open to their advantage

And afterwards when the deal of peace was made,
Then their fellows they summoned behind the gates,
With uniforms and bullets armed to the teeth,
Horses, chariots,...