Blue and Grey

 

(David Munyon/S.P. Standley)


This is a song about the Civil War, with „hope“ that it would never happen again...

 

In the rain you can't tell a distance

It might be a friend or a foe

Johnny Reb go ahead make your decision

Union Jacks old feet are gettin' cold

 

Leaving home, leaving Gail and the children

Robert Sloan, all alone standing guard

Patriot of the southern tradition

We have a right to farm the way we want

 

Destiny plays a game of redemption

Like a wheel of a Casson in the mud

Halbert Blake still in a daze from November

After shooting his first rebel thug

 

Toy soldiers with faces of little children

Too confused, too tired to complain

Time to march hope old Sarge knows...

Where he's goin'...

Follow blind; follow the Blue and the Grey

 

Let it go, go ahead, let it go now

You can cry no ones looking ahead

You've still got one good leg to stand on

You're going home, Bob Thatcher tells his friend

 

Underneath a musky tent Kneels a general

Praying loudly for deliverance for his men

He could be on either side of this conflict

He just wishes he wasn't fighting his old friends

 

Crumpled letters in a field coat from aunt Lettie

„Are you practicing your music like you said“

„I guess soldiers don't have much free time“

It doesn't matter the reader's already dead

 

Toy soldiers with faces of little children

Too confused, too tired to complain

Time to march hope old Sarge knows...

Where he's goin'...

Follow blind; follow the Blue and the Grey

 

The afternoon is the worst for a warrior

Muskets rest and the cook test his art

Once a slave in the beginning of this madness

Now a free-man pushing wounded in a cart

 

Fourteen years voluteer, old as a mountain

„Send the young one, he's a good shot, yes indeed“

„There's a sniper in the house by the river“

„One less Yankee is all the South needs“

 

Toy soldiers with faces of little children

Too confused, too tired to complain

Time to march hope old Sarge knows...

Where he's goin'...

Follow blind; follow the Blue and the Grey

 

David Munyon: vocal, guitar

Chris Jones: guitar

Mike Silver: backing vocals

Beo Brockhausen: tinwhistle

Hans-Jörg Maucksch: bass