“Singing Songs of Hate”“A Klan Tune

This Klan melody, “Mystic City,” combines the bouncy and cheery style of a popular song with nasty invective directed against immigrants.

“Mystic City” (A KKK Tune)

Lives there in a mystic city of the Empire that’s unseen

A grand and noble wizard who had once a wondrous dream

In this dream he saw

‘Ole Glory and the cause of liberty

Being supplanted by a people who had come across the sea.

Bringing with them flags,

And customs belonging to primeval man,

Who have picked and plant them firmly,

In this our native land.

Chorus:

Klansmen! Klansmen!

of the Ku Klux Klan,

Protestants, Gentile, native born man

Hooded, knighted, bold and true”“Loyal Sons of the Red, White and Blue.

Owing no allegiance

We are born free!

To God and Ol’ Glory, we bend our knee

The blind [inaudible] is written in history’s plan

With the serious Ku Klux Klan.

With a sudden start he awakened

Opened wide and seeing eyes

Crying room for “One flag only”

Underneath American skies

Then the fiery cross he lighted

And from that symbolic charm

Were united all the Klansmen

From fifty thousand farms

Bonds of Klansmanship are stronger

Than bonds of steel

For their country’s flag and heritage,

They’d die before they’d yield”“(Chorus repeats twice)