I am but a simple man.
I go no command of the written word.
I can only try to tell you
The things that I've seen and heard.
Listen to this picture
Forever etched upon my mind.
The day that hell broke loose just north of Marietta all along the Kennesaw line.
The day that hell broke loose just north of Marietta all along the Kennesaw line.
Well the sun rose high above us that morning
On a clear and cloudless day
A peckerwood tapped on a tree
That would soon be shot away
The heat blistered down through the leaves on the trees
The air seemed hot enough to catch fire
Heaven seemed to be made of brass
As the sun rose higher and higher
Everything got real still and quiet.
My old mess mate, Walter Hood
Said, " I believe them boys down there they're up to something
You know it ain't nothing good"
Well it was then the storm broke and swept down on us
Rumbling through the hills
Walter sighed and dropped his rifle
He said something to me about whippoorwills
"Sammy, can't you hear 'em singing
Singing for you and me
And all the Maury Grays, oh
Carry me back to Tennessee
God bless the First and the Twenty-seventh
The Grand Rock City Guard
Nobody every told me
That dying would be so hard"
Sammy, I think I'm been hurt real bad.
Ain't this a hell of a day.
You'd best go and leave me be now.
I think I need time to pray.
Well you know how bad I been wantin' to go home,
I couldn't see rightly how.
Colonel Field ain't gonna have a choice this time.
I think I'm gonna get my furlough now.
Oh don't you tell me that you can't you hear 'em
Singing for you and me
Yes, and all the Maury Grays, oh
Carry me back to Tennessee
I told you all I'm a simple man.
I go no command of the written word.
I can only try to tell you
The things that I've seen and heard.
Listen to this picture
Forever etched upon my mind.
The day that hell broke loose just north of Marietta all along the Kennesaw line.
The day that hell broke loose just north of Marietta all along the Kennesaw line.
Well I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Look away Dixie Land
The day that hell broke loose just north of Marietta all along the Kennesaw line.