The Ballad of Booth-Patrick Cassidy/Marcus Olsson/Victor Garber

[ti:The Ballad of Booth] [ar:Victor Garber] [al:Assassins] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ballad of Booth - Patrick Cassidy/Marcus Olsson/Victor Garber [00:26.75]Someone tell the story [00:29.47]Someone sing the song [00:31.06] [00:32.83]Every now and then [00:33.63]The country [00:34.86] [00:35.81]Goes a little wrong [00:37.37] [00:39.47]Every now and then [00:40.60]A madman's [00:43.02]Bound to come along [00:46.37] [00:47.03]Doesn't stop the story [00:48.96] [00:50.09]Story's pretty strong [00:52.24] [00:54.32]Doesn't change the song [00:58.84] [01:02.01]Johnny booth was a handsome devil [01:03.83] [01:04.93]Got up in his rings and fancy silks [01:06.52] [01:08.52]Had him a temper but kept it level [01:10.69] [01:11.58]Everybody called him wilkes [01:12.78] [01:15.49]Why did you do it johnny [01:18.33]Nobody agrees [01:19.50] [01:20.54]You who had everything [01:21.94]What made you bring [01:23.37]A nation to its knees [01:25.92] [01:26.59]Some say it was your voice had gone [01:29.11]Some say it was booze [01:31.30] [01:31.94]Some say you killed a coutry john [01:33.85]Because of bad reviews [01:35.76] [01:38.29]Johnny lived with a grace and glitter [01:39.95] [01:41.15]Kind of like the lives he lived on stage [01:43.10] [01:44.68]Died in a barn in pain and bitter [01:46.54] [01:47.61]Twenty seven years of age [01:50.33] [01:51.54]Why did you do it johnny [01:53.99]Throw it all away [01:55.51] [01:56.04]Why did you do it boy [01:57.87]Not just destroy [01:58.75]The pride and joy [02:00.38]Of illinois [02:00.81] [02:02.90]But all the u s a [02:04.42] [02:05.94]Your brother made you jealous john [02:07.62] [02:08.32]You couldn't fill his shoes [02:09.63] [02:11.33]Was that the reason tell us john [02:12.95] [02:13.70]Along with bad reviews [02:16.46] [02:27.30]Damn [02:27.49] [02:28.43]They're coming they'll be here any minute [02:30.34]I need your help [02:31.47]I've got to write this and i can't hold the pen [02:33.59]Johnny they've found us [02:34.37]We've got to get out of here [02:35.47]Not till i finish this [02:36.31]Johnny [02:36.55]No [02:36.78] [02:38.09]Have you seen these papers [02:39.21]Do you know what they're calling me [02:40.35] [02:40.88]A common cutthroat a hired assassin [02:42.31] [02:42.94]This one says i'm mad [02:43.89]We must have been mad to think [02:45.06]That we could kill the president and get away with it [02:46.69]We did get away with it [02:47.69] [02:48.84]He was a bloody tyrant and we brought him down [02:50.58] [02:51.18]And i will not have history think i did it for a bag of gold [02:53.93]Or in some kind of rabid fit [02:55.32]Johnny we have to go [02:56.26]No i have to make my case [02:58.96]And i need you to take it down [03:00.39]We don't have time [03:01.32]Take it down [03:02.34] [03:04.34]An indictment [03:05.12]Of the former president of the united states [03:06.90]Abraham lincoln who is herein charged [03:09.26]With the following high crimes and misdemeanors [03:10.75] [03:11.54]They say you're ship was sinking john [03:13.93] [03:15.39]One [03:15.66] [03:16.50]That you did ruthlessly provoke a war between the states [03:18.33] [03:18.90]Which cost some six hundred thousand [03:20.51]Of my countrymen their lives two [03:22.91]You'd started missing cues [03:24.24] [03:26.59]Two [03:26.87] [03:27.78]That you did silence your critics in the north [03:29.70]By hurling them into prison without benefit of charge or trial three [03:33.01]They say it wasn't lincoln john [03:35.04]Shut up three [03:35.96]You'd merely had a slew of bad [03:37.57]Reviews [03:38.24]I said shut up [03:39.18] [03:40.61]Booth i have fifty soldiers out here booth [03:44.23]Give yourselves up or we'll set fire to the barn [03:47.33]Don't shoot i'm coming out [03:49.12]No [03:49.42] [03:53.14]I have given my life for one act you understand [03:55.91] [03:57.61]Do not let history rob me of its meaning [03:59.81] [04:01.01]Pass on the truth you're the only one wo can [04:03.61] [04:05.80]Please [04:06.18] [04:08.93]He said [04:09.36]Damn you lincoln [04:10.97]You had your way [04:13.37]Tell'em boy [04:13.91]With blood you drew out [04:16.03]Of blue and gray [04:17.86]Tell it all [04:18.79]Tell'em till they listen [04:20.49]He said [04:21.16]Damn you lincoln [04:22.66]And damn the day [04:24.08] [04:24.68]You threw the u out [04:26.77]Of u s a [04:28.27] [04:30.78]He said [04:31.32]Hunt me down smear my name [04:33.54]Say i did it for the fame [04:36.47]What i did was kill the man who killed my country [04:40.39] [04:41.89]Now the southland will mend [04:44.51]Now this bloody war can end [04:47.03]Because someone slew th tyrant [04:49.52]Just as brutus slew the tyrant [04:51.79] [04:53.22]He said [04:53.74]Damn you lincoln [04:55.27]You righteous whore [04:56.93]Tell'em [04:57.12]Tell'em what he did [04:58.15]You turned your spite into civil war [05:01.42]Tell'em [05:01.91]Tell'em the truth [05:02.63]And more [05:03.09]Tell'em boy [05:03.91]Tell them how it happened [05:05.24]How the end doesn't mean that it's over [05:08.67]How surrender is not the end [05:11.63] [05:13.22]Tell them [05:15.28] [05:17.55]Hoe the country is not what it was [05:20.34] [05:21.80]Where there's blood in the clover [05:24.97] [05:26.50]How the nation can never again [05:30.58] [05:31.10]Be the hope that it was [05:34.30] [05:36.13]How the bruises may never be healed [05:40.77]How the wounds are forever [05:43.71] [05:45.29]How the how we gave up the field [05:48.19]But we still wouldn't yield [05:49.73] [05:50.28]How the union can never recover [05:53.85]From that vulgar [05:56.15]High and mighty [05:57.16]Niggerlover [05:58.70]Never [05:59.31] [06:01.80]Never never never [06:06.59] [06:08.09]No the country is not what it was [06:16.66] [06:33.63]Damn my soul if you must [06:37.23]Let my body turn to dust [06:40.35]Let it mingle with the ashes of the country [06:46.09] [06:46.95]Let them curse me to hell [06:50.23]Leave it to history to tell [06:53.08] [06:53.65]What i did i did well [06:56.65]And i did it for my country [07:00.08]Let them cry dirty traitor [07:03.69]They will understand it later [07:08.42] [07:10.92]The country is not what it was [07:20.05] [07:26.09]Johnny booth was a headstrong fellow [07:28.09] [07:29.06]Even he believed the things he said [07:30.46] [07:32.26]Some called him noble some said yellow [07:33.84] [07:35.27]What he was was off his head [07:36.58] [07:39.13]How could you do it johnny [07:40.76] [07:41.99]Calling it a cause [07:42.93] [07:43.86]You left a legacy [07:45.10]Of butchery [07:45.68]And treason we [07:47.99]Took eagerly [07:48.65] [07:50.39]And thought you'd get applause [07:52.27] [07:53.25]But traitors just get jeers and boos [07:55.68]Not visits to their graves [07:57.23] [07:58.55]While lincoln who got mixed reviews [08:00.50] [08:01.37]Beacause of you john now gets only raves [08:06.00]Damn you johnny [08:08.05]You paved the way [08:11.14] [08:11.73]For other madmen [08:13.65]To make us pay [08:16.07] [08:16.58]Lots of madmen [08:18.30]Have had their say [08:21.12]But only for a day [08:26.40] [08:29.90]Listen to the stories [08:31.77] [08:32.43]Hear it in the songs [08:34.41] [08:36.00]Angry men [08:36.49]Don't write the rules [08:37.41]And guns don't write the wrongs [08:41.84] [08:43.25]Hurts a while [08:44.54]But soon the country's [08:46.47] [08:46.99]Back where it belongs [08:50.18] [08:51.80]And that's the truth [08:53.75] [08:56.30]Still and all [08:59.77] [09:02.53]Damn you booth