Private Lonsway reportin' for duty October 12th Eighteen Sixty Three Ran away to Company D Twentieth Regiment New York Cavalry Rebels stampeded five hundred cattle Our mission was search and destroy Daybreak 4th of July Jumped upon those rebs with a battle cry There was a freight train loaded with supplies Corporal Jenkins volunteered to drive Quarter mile from Blackwater he realized Retreating troops set the bridge on fire We jumped off as the train plunged in Saw a big barge on the other side Captain Ford said, Joe, I want that lighter I hate to send you, for chances are you'll die 1864 Son tell them what grampa did in the war 1864 That's what I got my medal for I stripped off my clothes and told Jenkins If I don't come back write my folks and tell them Then I put my body under water Swam on my back towards other shore Gunfire thick as rain fell all around All the way across I heard that sound Looking for the chance I finally found Climbed on the scow & got it unbound 1864 Tell them what your grampa did in the war 1864 That's what I got this medal for On the bank a rebel found me Snuck behind on hands and knees Put his pistol to my head When my boy shot that fella dead 1864 Son tell them what your grampa did in the war 1864 Long long ago in the Civil War 1864 Tell them what your grampa did in the war 1864 That's what I got this medal forTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.