On a cold October's day
The battlefield at Gettysburg
On a plaque I read my name

The wheels of time begin to turn
I see the years stripped away
I see their lines blue and gray


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Down in Gettysburg
Saw them fall
Bloody Gettysburg

Took them all
Waited for the word
Never came

Retreat from Gettysburg

I've seen a lot of wicked things

Heard a lot of people cry
I know it couldn't touch the pain
Of seeing 50,000 die

I saw the sun fall away
The moon shone white on their graves


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Billy Yank said good-bye

Mother's son left to die
Dixieland look away
Mother's son died today


Papa fought a bloody war
His father in the one before

Walking through the haunted field
I knew we couldn't give no more
I saw the years stripped away

I watched men die blue and gray

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