The 1861 Project, Vol. 1: From

The 1861 Project The 1861 Project, Vol. 1: From歌詞
1.The Turning of a Field


2.Freedom Train


3.Horse Without A Rider

One day he appeared across the open field
Hungry and half dead, hurting with each steplike a vision rising
from the Morning mist
They never would have thought he'd be coming home – like this

It's a horse without a rider
It's a solemn silhouette
They all know what it means
It's the moment they did dread
They watch him walking wounded
So weary and so brave
It's a horse without a rider
And a soldier in a grave

They never got a letter to tell them of the news
So with each passing day, they'd hope and they would pray
But in a rich man's war and a poor man's fight
They finally got an answer in the painful morning light

It's a horse without a rider
It's a solemn silhouette
They all know what it means
it's the moment they did dread
they watch him walking wounded
so weary and so brave
it's a horse without a rider
and a soldier in a grave


4.The Old Bell


5.The Soldier's Dream


6.The South's On Fire


7.Children of Pride

Feels like the smoke is rising still
Sherman's just across the hill
Muskets lay upon the ground
Hoofs and canons still resound
Oh my God how young they are

The wind is blowing softly in the trees
Fanning through the spanish moss
There's a longing on the breeze
Times gone by, all that's lived and died
This land and its children of pride

No cotton cause the earth is scorched
No mansion that has not been torched
the valley's stream is running red
the vanquished never can forget
oh my God how young they are

chorus

fifty and one hundred years have gone
and still the ghosts cry the same old song

chorus


8.Shiloh


9.Standing By My Own


10.Eyes

I can see eternity from this hill
In the eyes of the men i have to kill
They'll be coming through those trees a thousand strong
and i know it's them or me when the day is done
and when the smoke clears and drifts up to the sky
and i'll wipe the blood and tears from my

eyes
eyes that look like home
eyes just like my own
eyes that have gone blind
eyes that look like mine

two years ago from ireland i came
landed in new bedford in the rain got drafted from a tavern in
new york
into the fighting irish marching off to war
if i'd had 300$ i wouldn't have to see
all these fallen southern soldiers
staring back at me

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and when i put my head down
and try to get some sleep
all that i can think about
all that i can see

(chorus)


11.The Battle of the Bands


12.Old Before Our Time

What will i do
when you're far away
how will i go on
day after day
just hold me tonight
i know there's nothing to say

waltz me across the floor once more
forget this war outside our door
i know that you will be gone before long
back to the front line and me left behind
old before our time

what will i do
with the crop standing tall
nobody here
to help me at all
longing for you
counting the tears as they fall

waltz me across the floor once more
forget this war outside our door
i know that you will be gone before long
back to the front line and me left behind
old before our time

will you come back
will you be the same
will i be in your arms dancing again

Chorus


13.Greater Gentlemen


14.Southland


15.GTT (Gone To Texas)


16.I Have

Have you walked 200 miles
with no shoes upon your feet
i have, i have
from the Appomattox courthouse
to Eastern TN
i have, i have

Have you seen a city burn
late one april night
i have, i have
i've seen richmond going down
giving up the fight
i have, i have

I've been there through it all
i've seen it rise i've seen it fall
i'm tired to the bone
all i want now is to go back home

Have you watched your best friend fall
charching up a ridge
i have, i have
on the Hatchie River
out by Davis bridge
i have, i have

chorus

Have you had to kill your neighbor
just so you could live
i have, i have
brother fighting brother
praying God will forgive
i have, i have

chorus


17.That's Me