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作曲 : Traditional: Dan Emmett |
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Would you like to hear my song? I'm afraid it's rather long |
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Of the famous "On to Richmond" double trouble, |
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Of the half-a-dozen trips and half-a-dozen slips |
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And the very latest bursting of the bubble. |
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'Tis pretty hard to sing and like a round, round ring |
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'Tis a dreadful knotty puzzle to unravel; |
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Though all the papers swore, when we touched Virginia's shore |
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That Richmond was a hard road to travel. |
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Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
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For Richmond is a hard road to travel |
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Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve |
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For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
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First, McDowell, bold and gay, set forth the shortest way, |
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By Manassas in the pleasant summer weather, |
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But unfortunately ran on a Stonewall, foolish man, |
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And had a "rocky journey" altogether; |
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And he found it rather hard to ride o'er Beauregard, |
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And Johnston proved a deuce of a bother, |
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And 'twas clear beyond a doubt that he didn't like the route, |
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And a second time would have to try another. |
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Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
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For Manassas is a hard road to travel; |
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Manassas gave us fits, and Bull Run made us grieve, |
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For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
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Next came the Wooly-Horse, with an overwhelming force, |
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To march down to Richmond by the Valley, |
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But he couldn't find the road, and his "onward movement" showed |
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His campaigning was a mere shilly-shally. |
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Then Commissary Banks, with his motley foreign ranks, |
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Kicking up a great noise, fuss, and flurry, |
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Lost the whole of his supplies, and with tears in his eyes, |
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From the Stonewall ran away in a hurry |
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Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
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For the Valley is a hard road to travel; |
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The Valley wouldn't do and we all had to leave, |
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For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
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Then the great Galena came, with her portholes all aflame, |
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And the Monitor, that famous naval wonder, |
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But the guns at Drewry's Bluff gave them speedily enough, |
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The loudest sort of reg'lar Rebel thunder. |
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The Galena was astonished and the Monitor admonished, |
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Our patent shot and shell were mocked at, |
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While the dreadful Naugatuck, by the hardest kind of luck, |
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Was knocked into an ugly cocked hat. |
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Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
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James River is a hard road to travel; |
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The gun-boats gave it up in terror and despair, |
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For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I declare! |
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Then McClellan followed soon, both with spade and balloon, |
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To try the Peninsular approaches, |
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But one and all agreed that his best rate of speed |
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Was no faster than the slowest of "slow coaches." |
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Instead of easy ground, at Williamsburg, he found, |
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A Longstreet indeed, and nothing shorter, |
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And it put him in the dumps, that spades wasn't trumps, |
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And the Hills he couldn't level as ordered. |
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Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve |
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For Longstreet is a hard road to travel - |
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Lay down the shovel, and throw away the spade |
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For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I'm afraid! |
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Then said Lincoln unto Pope, |
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"You can make the trip, I hope, |
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I will save the Universal Yankee nation, |
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To make sure of no defeat, I'll leave no lines of retreat, |
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And issue a famous proclamation." |
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But that same dreaded Jackson, this fellow laid his whacks, |
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And made him, by compulsion, a seceder |
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And Pope took rapid flight from Manassas' second fight, |
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'Twas his very last appearance as a leader. |
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Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
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For Stonewall is a hard road to travel; |
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Pope did his very best, but was evidently sold, |
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For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I am told! |
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Last of all the brave Burnside, with his pontoon bridges, tried |
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A road no one had thought of before him, |
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With two hundred thousand men for the Rebel slaughter pen, |
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And the blessed Union flag waving o'er him; |
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He met a fire like hell, of canister and shell, |
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That mowed his men down with great slaughter, |
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'Twas a shocking sight to view, that second Waterloo, |
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And the river ran with more blood than water. |
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Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
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Rappahannock is a hard road to travel |
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Burnside got in a trap, which caused him for to grieve |
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For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
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We are very much perplexed to know who is the next |
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To command the new Richmond expedition, |
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For the Capital must blaze, and that in ninety days, |
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And Jeff and his men be sent to perdition. |
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We'll take the cursed town, and then we'll burn it down, |
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And plunder and hang up each cursed Rebel; |
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Yet the contraband was right when he told us they would fight |
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"Oh, yes, massa, they fight like the devil!" |
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Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
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For Richmond is a hard road to travel; |
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Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
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For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
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Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves, |
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For Richmond is a hard road to travel. |
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Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves, |
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For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
