Gettysburg Lyrics

About a score of years ago

Headed down the eastern roads

Looking to the past

Dad tried to teach me about that day

How it changed the world some way

But I was just too young to grasp

Pulled our car up to the field

Taking in the green

The shining summer day

Dad read the plaques and somber words

But I just barely heard

Running off to play

I threw my hair back and laughed

Thinking nothing of the past

The war that we all know

I kicked my heels into the grass

Racing down the Westward track

To where the peach trees grow

And the bodies lay below

And the bodies lay below

I threw my hair back and laughed

Thinking nothing of the past

The war that we all know

I kicked my heels into the grass

Racing down the Westward track

To where the peach trees grow

And the bodies lay below

And the bodies lay below

Hallowed ground and open skies

Turning cartwheels on the high water mark

And don't it seem that's just the thing

The cause for which they died

I threw my hair back and laughed

Thinking nothing of the past

The war that we all know

I kicked my heels into the grass

Racing down the Westward track

To where the peach trees grow

And the bodies lay below

And the bodies lay below

And the bodies lay below

And the bodies lay below