Tonart: C minor
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Come all you gallant
soldiers a story I will tell,
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About the bloody battle on top Shiloh's Hill.
It was an awful struggle that would
cause your heart to chill;
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All from the battle on top Shiloh's Hill.
Interlude 1
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'Twas on the sixth of April,
about the break of day;
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The drums and fifes were playing
for us to march away.
My feelings at that moment
I do remember still,
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When first my feet were tromping on
top of Shiloh's Hill.
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About the hour of sunrise the
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battle first began;
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Before the fight was over,
we fought 'em hand to hand.
The horrors of the battle did
my soul with anguish fill
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The wounded and the dying
on top of Shiloh's Hill.
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Early upon next morning we
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fit the fight again,
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Unmindful of the wounded and
unuseful to the slain;
The cannon smoke did hide the sun,
ten thousand was the kill;
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And streams of blood went running
on top of Shiloh's Hill.
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My uniform of blue was turned
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into a purplish red,
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When someone on a foaming stead,
did strike me on the head;
I sent a bullet through his
heart and as he fell away,
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I saw the face of my dear father
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dressed in bloody gray.
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We won the battle but my heart
will always be in pain,
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The one who brought me to this world,
I'll never see again;
I pray to Christ my Saviour
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consistant with his will,
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God save the souls of them poor
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boys on top of Shiloh's Hill.
Outro 1
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