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Very soon the Yankee teachers / Came down and set up school; / But, oh! how the Rebs did hate it -- / It was agin' their rule.
Our masters always tried to hide / Book learning from our eyes; / Knowledge didn't agree with slavery -- / 'Twould make us all too wise.