‎Declaration Signer and Sons

I dream that music would be put to exalted words by or about beau ideals to regenerate interest in their principles. I conceptualized The Pursuit of Happiness Album. This is the 3rd song:

‎Declaration Signer and Sons

The Declaration Signer from New Jersey
Two sons in the Continental Army
Thomas and Aaron had to endure
Capture and torture, oh hellish torture!

Renounce your signature, or else, Signer
Precious sons remain in painful danger
Retract your pledge, secure sons’ return
Else: Aaron and Thomas would burn.

Do you remember the Glorious 56?
What the New Jersey father did?
He said, “No.” Courageously, he refused!
Uncommon valor, sacred honor, mighty good.

Do you know these heroes’ names?
Father and Sons in great pain
D’you remember what they fought for?
Perfect Freedom! Oh Liberty above all!

The glorious family from New Jersey
D’you honor their love of Liberty?
Continental Army Officers Thomas and Aaron!
Signer Abraham Clark owns this song.

In the early hours of July 4, 1776,
Abraham Clark wrote, "Our Congress Resolved
To Declare the United Colonies Free and Independent States....
It is gone so far that we must now be
A Free Independent State, or a Conquered Country...."

Ten days later Mr. Clark wrote,
"Our Declaration of Independence I dare say you have seen....
A few weeks will probably determine our fate -
Perfect Freedom or Absolute Slavery.
To some of us freedom or a halter.
Our fates are in the hands of an Almighty God,
To whom I can, with pleasure, confide my own…”

Signer Abraham Clark’s epitaph reads:
“He loved his Country and adhered to her cause
In the darkest hours of her struggles against oppression."
Indeed! At all cost, Abraham Clark and Sons honored the Declaration!

The glorious family from New Jersey
D’you honor their love of Liberty?
Continental Army Officers Thomas and Aaron!
Signer Abraham Clark owns this song.