Southern War Songs Camp-Fire, Patriotic & Sentimental

200+ Song Lyrics Collected, Arranged & Illustrated, By W. L. Fagan - online songbook




Share page  Visit Us On FB

O. say, can you see through the mist and the gloom,
Through the clouds of the battle our stars brightly shining, 'Tis a beacon of hope, 'tis a signal of doom To the hordes of the vandals our borders now lining; Proud defiance we hurl And our flag we unfurl, Let it float, proudly float, in the gaze of the world
Chorus.
For thirty years or more, we have waited and prayed
That the chains of oppression and wrongs might be sundered,
But the black fiends of the North, with their plans foully laid,
Have raised up a whirlwind and the old ship's now foundered.
We shouted the alarm,
We spoke of our wrongs,
Now the argument's exhausted, we'll stand by our arms.
Chorus.
Oh ! Manassas has been fought, and the field has been won, And the brag guns of Sherman our brave boys have taken; Our foes have retreated back to old Washington,
But the ranks of our Dixie still remain there unshaken; And over the graves Of the New York Zouaves The bars and the stars now triumphantly waves.
Chorus.
89