Kyle Thompson: Music
Glory Road
(Kyle Thompson)
Kyle Thompson
Recorded in Old Salem Church, Fredericksburg National Military Park
GLORY ROAD
COME GATHER ROUND BOYS THE ORDER'S COME DOWN
THE WAITING IS OVER IN BIVOUAC TOWN
FILL YOUR HAVERSACK WITH HARDTACK AND POLISH YOUR GUN
WE'LL ROLL WITH THE CAISON AND THE RISE OF THE SUN.
100,000 MEN LINE INTO CORPS
READY FOR KILLIN' AND AN END TO THIS WAR
BUT THERE'S NO YANKEE DOODLE TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD
AS ABRAHAMS' ARMY ROLLS DOWN GLORY ROAD.
WELL THE RIVERS RUN HIGH IN THE EARLY SPRING
BUT FOR THE POTOMAC ARMY THAT DON'T MEAN A THING
AND OL' JOHNNY REB HE DON'T GIVE A DAMN
IF THEY CROSS THE RAPPAHANNOCK OR THE RAPIDAN...
TAKE 100
TAKE 1000....
AND TURN THEM TO BONE.
THEM BOYS OF THE UNION WILL NEVER MARCH HOME
CAUSE ROBERT E. LEE HAS HIS CANNONS PLACED WELL
AND WHEN THE YANKEES COME MARCHIN'
HE'LL BLOW THEM RIGHT BACK TO HELL...
BY THE FIRE OF A MUSKET AND THE LIGHT OF THE MOON
THE VI CORPS CAME DOWN THE OLD PLANK ROAD TOO SOON
AND THE BEAUTIFUL SADNESS OF A WHIPPOORWILLS' CALL
BROUGHT A THUNDER OF CANISTER AND SOLID SHOT BALL.
TAKE 100
TAKE 1000...
AND TURN THEM TO BONE.
THOSE BOYS OF THE UNION WILL NEVER GO HOME
SOME CRIED AS THEY DIED ' DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE’
SOME SAY YOU CAN STILL HEAR THE WILDERNESS MOAN...
WITH THE BODIES OF HORSES AND THE BODIES OF MEN
THAT WERE TORN INTO PIECES BY FOE AND BY FRIEND
SUCH CARNAGE I SWEAR ......NO MAN HAD EVER SEEN
“BOYS THERE'’S NO WAKIN' UP FROM YOUR CIVIL WAR DREAM.”
TAKE 100
TAKE 1000...
AND TURN THEM TO BONE
THEM BOYS OF THE UNION WILL NEVER GO HOME
SOME CRIED AS THEY DIED ' LORD DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE’
SOME SAY IF YOU LISTEN...YOU CAN STILL HEAR THEM MOAN.