I am just 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.
Won't you 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.
Well the sun rose high above us that morning
On a clear and cloudless day
A p*****wood, 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
The sun rose higher and higher
Everything got real still and quiet.
My old mess mate, Walter Hood
Said, "Them boys down there they're up to something
I know it ain't no d*** good"
Well the storm broke, swept down on us
Rumbling through the hills
Walter sighed and dropped his rifle
I said something to me 'bout 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 hurt real bad.
Ain't this a hell of a day.
You'd best go and leave me now.
I think I need time to pray.
Well You know how bad I been wantin' to go home,
But I couldn't see rightly how.
Colonel Field ain't gonna have a choice this time.
I'm think gonna get my furlough now.
He said, "Sammy, can't you hear 'em singing
Singing for you and me
Yes, and all the Maury Grays, Lord
Carry me back to Tennessee, Tennessee
I am just 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.
Won't you 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.
I go no command of the written word.
I can only try to tell you
The things that I've seen and heard.
Won't you 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.
Well the sun rose high above us that morning
On a clear and cloudless day
A p*****wood, 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
The sun rose higher and higher
Everything got real still and quiet.
My old mess mate, Walter Hood
Said, "Them boys down there they're up to something
I know it ain't no d*** good"
Well the storm broke, swept down on us
Rumbling through the hills
Walter sighed and dropped his rifle
I said something to me 'bout 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 hurt real bad.
Ain't this a hell of a day.
You'd best go and leave me now.
I think I need time to pray.
Well You know how bad I been wantin' to go home,
But I couldn't see rightly how.
Colonel Field ain't gonna have a choice this time.
I'm think gonna get my furlough now.
He said, "Sammy, can't you hear 'em singing
Singing for you and me
Yes, and all the Maury Grays, Lord
Carry me back to Tennessee, Tennessee
I am just 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.
Won't you 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.