On a quiet kayak ride with a single wooden paddle
We came upon Beaufort of the Great Beaufort Skedaddle
Yes the Great Skedaddle was a civil war battle.
But the Great Beaufort Skedaddle took place on a day
When the white town of Beaufort in a panic ran away.
When they learned a Yankee general had made plans to invade,
So, every white landowner fled to escape that raid.
Those plantation owners left for good it turns out,
Leaving thousands of Gullah people newly freed, no doubt.
And they stayed on in Beaufort and the cotton plantations
Forming towns of freed slaves, the first in the nation.
On those fine Sea Islands down Georgia way.
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