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LIBERTY COUNTY
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ballad
southern rock
rock ballads about living in the south
This is a collection of songs grouped by theme more than by style - my impressions of living in the deep south, still with the legacy of the Civil War.
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Genre
Rock • Rock General
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#7,273 in subgenre Peak #95
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Peak #1,585
Author
Paresh
Rights
1983 Paresh
Uploaded
July 11, 2011
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MP3 4.3 MB • 128 kbps • 4:40
Story behind the song
This is one of a group of songs I wrote about the Battle of Natural Bridge, a Civil War battle they reenact every year near Tallahassee, Fla. In many years of living in the South, I still felt the echos of the Civil War.
Lyrics
Tonight I'm watch in that tree up above Tomorrow we wake to the mourning doves That remind me of Sarah, my only love Tomorrow is Tuesday the fourth of July I'm fighting my brother and I don't know why But I've seen enough to make a grown man cry Things look bad I'm sorry to say Homer was wounded just yesterday And the Stars and Bars are getting frayed If we stand the next Yankee drive Some of us won't come home alive To anxious widows and worried wives But people might visit here some rainy day When ghosts in uniform come out to play And there's echoes of muskets from far away The Union forces were driven away Forty lay dead at the end of the day Some of them blue and some of them gray The smoke was clear and the cannons still The farmlands burned, there was blood in the hills And the drone of the insects and whip-por-wills
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