Yes, went they through the Lehigh Valley 
To Lake Erie past Virginia 
And the land called out its challenge 
Bring your men to match our mountains 
See the green Ohio Valley 
See the Cumberland, the Wabash 

On the Tennessee they floated 
On great rafts to the Mississippi 
And the Cherokee and Shawnee 
And the Creek and The Ojibwa 
And the Choctaw and the Quapaw 
And all the tribes along the rivers 

... that they were coming 
That the white man was upon them 
They built their homes along the rivers 
Built their churches, brought their preachers 
Came upon the white misery 
Stopped before the shining mountains 

Many died from the beginning 
For the freedom of America 
Like that day down in New Orleans