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Subject: Dan Peyton's Ride
From: MMario
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T:Dan Peyton's ride
C:Allen Norton Leete - 1889
N:Levy boxy 136 item 057
N:"the hero knowing of the danger rode furiously through the streets of Johnstown warning them, but they thought him mad. Finally he and his horse were swept away at the bridge where they were afterward found side by side."
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DAN PEYTON'S RIDE
(Allen Norton Leete - 1889)
At the warn-ing of dan-ger Pey-tron on his horse,
En-coun-tered the tor-rent, once a ti-ny rill,
through wa-ter and mire he tore a-long the street
shout-ing "run for your lives to the hill"
Run for your lives, make haste while you may;
The tor-rents from the dam on us fall;
But they laughed him to scorn,
or else thought him mad;
Not a score _ gave heed to his call.
Chorus:The horse and his ri-der do-ing mer-cy's work.
Sa-ving hu-man lives if they died;
But the flood o-ver-took and o'er whelm'd them on the bridge;
they per-ished like he-roes side by side.
But his work was to save; he kept up-on his way,
Un-daun-ted and fear-less, shout-ing with a will;
Through street af-ter street be-seech-ing not to stay,
but to "run for their lives to the hill"
Run for your lives, he ceased not to shout,
The del-uge com-ing swift as a gale
Mid the mist and _ foam his
heart_con-tin-ued stout,
in the sha-dow of death in the vale
Chorus:
But the del-uge swept down; a wall of wa-ter came,
Re-lent-less _ mur-d'rous, bent to drown and kill;
And Pey-ton with ven-om hunt-ing as for prey
It de-creed he should never reach the hill
Run for your lives, he ceased not to shout,
The del-uge com-ing swift as a gale
Mid the mist and _ foam his
heart_con-tin-ued stout,
in the sha-dow of death in the vale
Chorus:
Up a bank's slipp-'ry sides his snor-ting steed es-sayed
To ob-tain a foot-hold, but a-las in vain,
the de-luge o'er took them, side by side they laid
Im -mor-tal he _ -roes 'mid the slain.
"Run for your lives!" the e-cho _ rang
As the dead swept _ by on the flood
And the theme pierced a-loft while the an-gels sang
Of sal-va-tion through an-guish and blood
Chorus:
Levy boxy 136 item 057
"the hero knowing of the danger rode furiously through the streets of Johnstown warning them, but they thought him mad. Finally he and his horse were swept away at the bridge where they were afterward found side by side."
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