
Date of issue: 22.03.2001
Song language: English
Caleb Brown |
Caleb Brown was a mighty fine man |
And his skin was the color of the good rich land |
He bought a slope-eared mule named Dan |
And broke a little piece of ground |
Cleared the place with his own bare hands |
Made cotton grow in the rocks and sand |
Thought he’d found the promised land |
'Til the soldiers came to town |
Gather by the river |
Light a fire in the old campground |
Stand and deliver |
They’re burning Dixie down |
Caleb Brown never took a side |
Always hoped that the war would pass him by |
Trouble came and he closed his eyes |
Then he woke to the sound of the guns |
They stole his chickens and the old milk cow |
Left him nothing but a broken plow |
He cried out «what can I do now |
But to wait for the kingdom come?» |
Gather by the river |
Light a fire in the old campground |
Stand and deliver |
They’re burning Dixie down |
Was a war, was a mighty fine war |
Was a war like the world never saw before |
The only one not keeping score |
Was a man named Caleb Brown |
No one knows what his eyes have seen |
How he washed his hands in a bloody stream |
Buried all his hopes and dreams |
Down in the cold, cold ground |
Gather by the river |
Light a fire in the old campground |
Stand and deliver |
They’re burning Dixie down |
They’re burning Dixie down |
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