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Richmond is a Hard Road to Travel
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2nd South Carolina String Band
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Would you like to hear my song? I'm afraid it's rather long Of the famous "On to Richmond" double trouble Of the half-a-dozen trips and half-a-dozen slips And the very latest bursting of the bubble 'Tis pretty hard to sing and like a round, round ring 'Tis a dreadful knotty puzzle to unravel; Though all the papers swore, when we touched Virginia's shore That Richmond was a hard road to travel Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve Richmond is a hard road to travel Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe First, McDowell, bold and gay, set forth the shortest way By Mana**as in the pleasant summеr weather But unfortunately ran on a Stonеwall, foolish man And had a "rocky journey" altogether; And he found it rather hard to ride o'er Beauregard And Johnston proved a deuce of a bother And 'twas clear beyond a doubt that he didn't like the route And a second time would have to try another Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve For Mana**as is a hard road to travel; Mana**as gave us fits, and Bull Run made us grieve For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! Next came the Wooly-Horse, with an overwhelming force To march down to Richmond by the Valley But he couldn't find the road, and his "onward movement" showed His campaigning was a mere shilly-shally Then Commissary Banks, with his motley foreign ranks Kicking up a great noise, fuss, and flurry Lost the whole of his supplies, and with tears in his eyes From the Stonewall ran away in a hurry Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve For the Valley is a hard road to travel; The Valley wouldn't do and we all had to leave For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! Then McClellan followed soon, both with spade and balloon To try the Peninsular approaches But one and all agreed that his best rate of speed Was no faster than the slowest of "slow coaches." Instead of easy ground, at Williamsburg, he found A Longstreet indeed, and nothing shorter And it put him in the dumps, that spades wasn't trumps And the Hills he couldn't level as ordered Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve For Longstreet is a hard road to travel - Lay down the shovel, and throw away the spade For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I'm afraid! Then said Lincoln said to Pope "You can make the trip, I hope I will save the Universal Yankee nation To make sure of no defeat, I'll leave no lines of retreat And issue a famous proclamation." But that same dreaded Jackson, this fellow laid his whacks And made him, by compulsion, a seceder And Pope took rapid flight from Mana**as' second fight 'Twas his very last appearance as a leader Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve For Stonewall is a hard road to travel; Pope did his very best, but was evidently sold For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I am told! Last of all the brave Burnside, with his pontoon bridges, tried A road no one had thought of before him With two hundred thousand men for the Rebel slaughter pen And the blessed Union flag waving o'er him; But he met a fire like hell, of canister and shell That mowed his men down with great slaughter 'Twas a shocking sight to view, that second Waterloo And the river ran with more blood than with water Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve Rappahannock is a hard road to travel Burnside got in a trap, which caused him for to grieve For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! We are very much perplexed to know who is the next To command the new Richmond expedition For the Capital must blaze, and that in ninety days And Jeff and his men be sent to perdition We'll take the cursed town, and burn it to the ground And plunder and hang up each cursed Rebel; Yet the contraband was right when he told us they would fight "Oh, yes, ma**a, they fight like the devil!" Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve For Richmond is a hard road to travel; Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe!
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