[ti:The Gettysburg Address] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:America] [offset:0] [00:00.00] [00:00.10]Four score and seven years ago so began the message [00:05.33]Of a war-weary President Abraham Lincoln [00:09.19]A message written on the back of an envelope on a train [00:12.69]On the way to dedicate a battlefield [00:15.87]Where men from the north and south had died at Gettysburg Pennsylvania [00:20.64] [00:25.15]Four score and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth on this continent [00:30.70]A new nation conceived in liberty [00:34.32]And dedicated in the proposition that all men are created equal [00:41.44]Now we're engaged in a great Civil War [00:44.81]Testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived [00:47.93]And so dedicated can long endure [00:53.48]We are met on a great battlefield of that war [00:56.48]We have come to dedicate a portion of that field [00:59.22]As the final resting place for those who here gave their lives [01:04.15]That that nation might live [01:06.34]It is altogether fitting and proper thast we should do this [01:12.26]But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate [01:18.31]We cannot hallow this ground [01:20.38]For the brave men living and dead who struggled here [01:24.43]Have consecreated it far above our poor power to add or detract [01:32.10]The world will little notice or long remember what we say here [01:36.35]But it can never forget what they did here [01:39.91]It is for us the living rather to be dedicasted here to the unfinished work [01:45.09]Which they who fought here have thus so nobly advanced [01:48.02] [01:50.10]It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us [01:56.03]That from these honored dead we take increased devotion [02:00.28]To that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion [02:05.28]That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died [02:10.15] [02:12.81]In vain and that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom [02:19.55]And the government of the peopole by the people and for the people [02:28.35]Shall not perish from the earth [02:30.47]