Dropped before the New Y ork opening. Intended for Act II, Scene 3.
Alternate title: "Life! Liberty! And the Pursuit of You" It was sung in the New Haven and Boston tryouts by Jack Haley, Shirley Ross, and ensemble.
It was replaced by "I'm Afraid".

VERSE
 
In seventeen hundred and seventy-six
Hancock put his Hancock
On some hist'ry-making tricks.
In nineteen-forty I want to make it known
I have a doctrine of my own.

REFRAIN

Life! Liberty!
And the pursuit of you!
I pledge allegiance to two eyes of blue.
Life! Liberty!
And the escape of me!
I couldn't use them, I'd refuse them-
Never set me free.
My folks, and their descendants,
Were all Yanks, and how! 
I make my Declaration of Dependence
Right here and now! 
Take my life! Liberty!
And my devotion, too.
I belong to you!

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