I got me a cattle ranch,
back in '51,
started up a family there,
with three girls and a son,
but when the war spread out west,
and my brothers joined with Johnny Reb,
I followed suit,
and off we rode;
And midst that pomp and circumstance,
it seemed so clear back then,
the land we loved and grew upon
belonged in our own hands-
but now we're seven hundred miles from Missouri,
and it's been seven lonely months on the road,
so won't you pass me over some of that bourbon,
and let's make a toast:
to when the bayonets and banners lie buried,
and we go home.
Now Wilson's Creek we hit 'em good,
and damn those Yankees run,
but little did we know it then,
the hell that was to come-
when on the front lines at Elkhorn Tavern,
how the northern shells and bullets rained,
and when the smoke cleared,
of my brothers, only I remained.
And so i ask you how much killing
will it take 'til this war is finally over,
and if heaven abide,
I might just someday get to see my baby
nestled up by my side?
Oh 'cause the death here and the dying,
man, the screaming and blood,
it's a nightmare with no ending in sight,
but to the beating of the cannon
still we fly our battle-torn flag high;
oh and i guess we'll just keep right on flying it
for who knows why.
So through the days and sleepless nights,
I shudder at the loss,
and what a farce to think this fight
could justify the cost;
so now comrades, if you make it,
and I should fall upon these hills,
would you take my spirit back to my kinfolk,
and help my wife and kids;
'cause now i'm seven hundred miles from Missouri,
and it's been seven lonely months on the road,
so won't you pass me over some of that bourbon,
and let's make a toast:
to when the bayonets and banners lie buried,
and we go home.
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