Captain the horseman and hounds south travelin slowly My loyality to crossroads and thresholds Comes with my rising hope to leave this hunt unfollowed My blood's courage courses to rendezvous With freedom My blood's courage courses to rendezvous With freedom My blood's courage courses to rendezvous With freedom My blood's courage courses to rendezvous With freedom I swore nothing in my passing(in my passing) To die like surrender would teach me a lesson "Judas", they too would cry Oh oriole in the mile before dawn Do not return a treasonous song unguarded