Respectfully inscribed to the Kentucky brigade, 1863.
words by Coke
music by Charlie L. Ward
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- In the year of sixty one we left our native land
For we could not bend our spirits to a tyrant’s stern command
And we rallied to our Buckner while our hearts were sad and sore
To offer our blood for freedom as our fathers did before
Chorus
And we’ll march, march, march to the music of the drum
We were drawn forth in exile from our old Kentucky home
- When first the Southern flag unfurled its folds upon the air
Its stars had hardly gathered till Kentucky’s sons were there
And they swore a solemn oath as they sternly gathered round
They would only live as freeman in the dark and bloody ground - With Buckner as our leader and Morgan in the Van
We will plant the flag of freedom in our fair and happy land
We will drive the tyrants minions to the Ohio’s rolling flood
And will dye her waves in crimson with coward Yankee blood - Then cheer ye Southern braves, ye soon shall see the day
When Kentucky’s fairest daughters will cheer you on your way
And then her proud old mothers will welcome one and all
For “United we must stand, but divided we must fall”
Sung here by Fred Feild: