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Date of issue: 09.02.2015
Song language: English
Antietam |
Thanks be to war and our losses before |
Thank God for mud and for rain |
We’re anxious to fight and have Federals in sight |
We’ll reward their transgressions with pain |
We’ll strike at their home, and so northwards we roam |
Singing «Dixie» with bellies full of rum |
We’re hungry and proud, our rebel yells loud |
On the banks of this place called Antietam |
Once more unto the breach we go |
Our brothers are now our foes |
Our countrymen have lost their way |
We’ll send them straight to Hell |
I know that we can win the day |
(Make them pay) |
Thank God for this plight, that we may reunite |
Our Union of equal-born men |
At Capitol Hill, they exerted their will |
But justice we must defend |
When this is through, we know it to be true |
That many won’t make it back home |
Let history show what sacrifices we’ve known for this war |
When the North stands alone |
The field is reaped for harvest |
Our fellows' blood soaks the ground |
With every shot, more men are lost |
Bodies all around |
In the din of screams and gunfire |
The scales are tipped so many times |
Never was so little traded |
For so many wasted lives |
This morning, we were so proud |
May our brothers forgive our sins |
We have shed so much blood |
But in the end, no one wins |
Our dead now lay among us |
We collect our fallen brethren |
In grief we are united once again |
A solemn truce between us |
As silence fills the air |
We’re all the same in the darkness of the night |
The cornfield, the bloody lane |
All shot down in ruin |
So much death, nothing gained |
But the way was paved for freedom |
Twenty-two thousand souls |
Illuminate this soil now |
We all look back in horror |
The gates of Hell had opened |
At Antietam |