The Gettysburg Address FIREWORK Style

My (Mimi) AP Language teacher is giving outrageously wonderful extra credit for those who memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address, and many my peers were talking about ways that would make it easier to remember. So I volunteered singing the Gettysburg Address to the tune of a song that everyone recognizes. It turned out to be Katy Perry's "Firework", and I hope it benefits all of you APLanguagers. But PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE excuse my several mistakes.

Vocals - Krissy Phillips & Mimi Phillips
Guitar - Mimi Phillips


Four score and
seven years ago
our fathers brought
forth on this continent,
a new nation,
conceived in Liberty,
and dedicated
to the proposition
that all men are
created equal. PAUSE TWO BARS ( :
Now we are engaged in
a great civil war,
testing whether that
nation, or any nation
so conceived and
so dedicated,
can long endure.
We are met
(PRECHORUS) on a great
battle-field
of that war.
We have come
to dedicate
a portion of that field
(CHORUS) , as a final resting place
for those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live.
It is altogether fitting
(PAUSE) and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense,
we can not dedicate
-- we can not consecrate -
- we can not hallow -
- this ground.
The brave men,
living and dead,
who struggled here,
have consecrated it,
far above our
poor power
to add or detract.
The world will little
note, nor long remember
what we say here,
but it can never
(PRECHORUS) forget
what they did
here.
It is
for us the living,
rather, to be
dedicated here
(CHORUS) to the unfinished work
which they who fought here have
thus farso nobly advanced.
It is rather for us

to
be
here
dedicated to
remain
ing
be
fore us
-- that
from
these
honored dead we
take
increased
devotion to that
(PRECHORUS) cause
for which
they gave
the last
full measure
of devotion
(CHORUS)-- that we here highly
resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain --
that this nation,
under God
, shall have a new birth
of freedom --
and that government

of the people,
by the people,
for the people,
shall not perish from the earth.

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[Kidcalledjesus]

Can I get the lyrics and tabs/chords for this? (:

Real would help me

[mimibrats]

@Kidcalledjesus

It's just G Am Em C the whole entire time, and the words are posted in the information :) I hope that helps!

[JEKND51]

1 person didn't get the "The Wonder Extra Credit "

aha , xD

[DSand68]

I'd hit

[defygravity314]

What are the chords to this?

[defygravity314]

Whoops!

[defygravity314]

Four score

[Amber3216]

i have to say this in my failing class tomorrow.

[TOSHIBAOWNZ]

all the lyrics is the exact gettysburg address? No changes in wording?

[jenna12jc]

i know all of the gettysburg address

[52feetplease]

Ha thanks I have to memorize this by tomorrow for history. :(

[x0xmadddiieex0x]

ommmmg thank you soo much :) ps u guys are both really gorgg! and pretty good at singing :D

[VanessAndGabby]

Wow. I see people saying "oh, i have to memorize this for my AP english class" and im like woowww....im 12 and i have to memorize it for english.. T.T

[nicki78987]

This is so awesome! You guys rock!!!!!!!!!!!!