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Lyrics for Ben McCulloch by Steve Earle:
| | | Artist: | Steve Earle |
| | Album: | Unknown | | Track: | Ben McCulloch | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 79 | | | | Lyrics: | We signed up in San Antone my brother Paul and me
To fight with Ben McCulloch and the Texas
infantry
Well the poster said we'd get a uniform and seven bucks a week
The best
rations in the army and a rifle we could keep
When I first laid eyes on the general I knew
he was a fightin' man
He was every inch a soldier every word was his command
Well his eyes
were cold as the lead and steel forged into tools of war
He took the lives of many and the
souls of many more
Well they marched us to Missouri and we hardly stopped for rest
Then he made this speech and said we're comin' to the test
Well we've got to take Saint
Louie boys before the yankees do
If we control the Mississippi then the Federals are through
Well they told us that our enemy would all be dressed in blue
They forgot about the
winter's cold and the cursed fever too
My brother died at Wilson's creek and Lord I seen him
fall
We fell back to the Boston Mountains in the North of Arkansas
CHORUS
Goddamn you Ben McCulloch
I hate you more than any other man alive
And when you die
you'll be a foot soldier just like me
In the devil's infantry
And on the way to
Fayetteville we cursed McCulloch`s name
And mourned the dead that we'd left behind and we was
carrying the lame
I killed a boy the other night who'd never even shaved
I don't even know
what I'm fightin' for I ain't never owned a slave
So I snuck out of camp and then I heard
the news next night
The Yankees won the battle and McCulloch lost his life | | | |  Reddit | X / Twitter | Facebook | Copy link |
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