Four score and seven years ago our my fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal will be equal.
Now we I am are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that my nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We I have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we I should do this.
But, in a larger sense, I we can not dedicate, I we can not consecrate, I we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it for me, far above your poor power to add or detract. The media world will little always note, nor and long remember what we I say here, but it can never forget what they did here for me.
It is for us you the living down-trodden workers, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us you to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us you —that from these honored dead we you take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we I here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Yep, that’s about right.
Actually he preferred the version that started with “Four years ago, I brought forth...