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Come all you loyal unionists, wherever you may be, |
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I hope you'll pay attention and listen unto me; |
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For well you know the blood and woe, the misery, the toil |
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It took to down secession on Virginia's bloody soil. |
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When our good old flag, the Stars and Stripes, from Sumter's walls was hurled, |
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And high o'erhead on the forwardest walls the Rebels their flag unfurled, |
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It aroused each loyal northern man and caused his blood to boil |
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For to see that flag—Secession's rag—float o'er Virginia's soil. |
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Then from the hills and mountain tops there came that wild alarm; |
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Rise up! ye gallant sons of North, our country calls to arms. |
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Come from the plains o'er hill and dale, ye hardy sons of toil, |
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For our flag is trampled in the dust on Virginia's bloody soil. |
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And thousands left their native homes, some never to return, |
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And many's the wife and family dear were left behind to mourn. |
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There was one who went among them who from danger would ne'er recoil; |
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Now his bones lie bleaching on the fields of Virginia's bloody soil. |
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In the great fight of the Wilderness, where many's the brave man fell, |
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This captain led his comrades on through Rebel shot and shell, |
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The wounded 'round they strewed the ground; the dead lay heaped in piled, |
| [03:00] |
The comrades weltered in their blood on Virginia's bloody soil. |
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The Rebels fought like fury,just like tigers drove to bay. |
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They knew full well, if the truth they'd tell, they could not win the day. |
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It was hand to hand they fought 'em. The struggle was fierce and wild, |
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Till a bullet pierced our captain's brain, on Virginia's bloody soil. |
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And now our hero's sleeping with thousands of the brave. |
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No marble slab does mark the place that shows where he was laid. |
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He died to save our Union; he's free of care and toil. |
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Thank God,The Stars and Stripes still wave above Virginia's soil. |
