Thank You: Alvan, Nick Z, Duncan at DWJ Creative, Harlem Greenwood, Sara Deane, Joe Alford Williams, Bob Hansmann, Biddy Early's, and Mike's Monster Guitar, Cambridge MA.
Dedicated to William J. Carroll… A natural leader among men.
lyrics
"Ballad of John L. Burns"
words/music Jobe Freeman 2020.
In 1812 I went shoulder to shoulder
Fightin Brits with flintlock & all my Brothers
From sundown to sunrise lead ball was-a-flyin
Down Lundys Lane till the enemy retired
CH: But Oh my Brothers, I hear that call, once again…
I'm the Constable here now in Gettysburg Penn
When the Rebs came in, II:threw me in my own jail:II
Next day I got free so ran quick down the street
I'm pushin seventy now but I aint never gonna retreat
CH But Oh my Brothers, I hear that call, once again…
I gots back to my house & grabbed tall hat & rifle
The Wife cried "Stay" but I was piss vinegar & spiteful
Ran through my fields where I heard the din a-risin
All the cows were ok, I was cut lose & flyin'
CH But Oh my Brothers, I hear that call, once again…
(spoken): Then I came across a soldier. A very young Union Comrade.
Give me your gun Son mine is so dated
Yer legs all cut-up, II:I'm a crack-shot not faded:II
I fell-in-tight with the 7th* from Wisconsin
Rood put me at the tree line, where I made a riderless horse...
CH But Oh my Brothers, I hear that call, once again…
I took Three in the body then buried all my amo
Rebs patch'd me-up, but I never took a drop no
If they'd known I was firin at um in my Civi clothes
Would've been shot on the spot, justified, I know
CH But Oh my Brothers, I hear that call, once again…
3 months later Mister Lincoln came-a-callin'
"Show me the town Sir 'fore I recognize the Fallen"
I heard his short speech wearin my Sunday best
Both of us clutchin our tall hats TIGHT TO our breast
But Oh my Brothers, I hear that call, once again…
& Oh my SISTERS, I hear that call, once again
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