Chords for Civil War Medley - The Limeliters

[F#] _ Oh, hear the [G#m] drums thunder, _ [A#m] they sound such [G#m] a wonder.
[A#m] Go march off [D#] to war, _ [D#m] boys, [G#m] and have at your fun.
_ [C#] _
[F#] With your _ _ [G#m] bangles and _ spangles [A#m] and bright _ [G#m] golden buttons,
_ [A#m] and bright [D#m] golden _ buttons _ [G#m] that shine _ _ [C#] _ _ _ in [F#]
the sun. _ _ _ _ _ _
[A#m] Oh, the cannons [D#m] are screaming, _ [A#m] or _ is it [D#m] my _ dreaming?
_ [A#m] Young men will _ stumble _ [G#m] and fall in the dust.
_ _ [C#] _
[F#] The cheers _ [G#m] turn to crying _ [A#m] when life [G#m] turns to dying,
_ [A#m] and bright _ [D#m] golden buttons. _ _ _
_ [G#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _
_ [D] _ _ [C#] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _
_ [D] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [F#] _
_ [Bm] Boom, ba-ba-boom, ba-ba-boom, _ twelve riders in the gloom. _
Seven show red and the [Em] rest are dead, [A] but the first _ _ [F#] battalion's home.
_ _ _ _ Boom, ba-ba-boom, [B] ba-ba-boom, [Bm] you can hear the hoofbeats boom.
The drums are low and the [Em] pace is slow, [A] but the first [E] _ _ [F#]
battalion's home.
_ _ [E] So run to your [A] home, Virginia gals, [E] fix your [A] hair with pins.
_ [E] Give them wine [A] and kisses, but [C#m] don't ask them where [F#] they've been.
_ _ _ [D] _
[F#] Boom, ba-ba [B]-boom, ba-ba _ [F#]-boom, [Bm] and Richmond is their tomb.
_ There's a hundred still at Richmond, three [F#m] hundred [Em] dead at _ Gettysburg,
[Bm] and a [F#m] hundred more [Em] we never found, [A] but the first [E] _ _ [F#] battalion's home. _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ There's a fire _ _ raging somewhere, _ and [C#m] its thunder _ [F#m] shakes the ground.
_ _ Terrible silence when it's over, _ [C#m] only death makes [F#m] such a sound.
_ And [C#m] I see, _ yes I see, _ on the last day of [F#m] July. _
Yes [A] I see, yes I see, yes _ I see, on [F#m] the last day of July.
_ _ Something's moving _ in the shadow, _ [C#m] what is this that's drawing [F#m] nigh? _
It's the reaper _ moving silently, _ [C#m] must be someone's time [F#m] to die.
_ [C#m] And I see, yes I see, _ on [C#] the last day [F#m] of July.
[A] Oh yes I see, yes I see, on [C#] the last day [F#m] of July. _
[A] Oh yes I see, _ yes I see, _ [F#m] on the last [G#m] day of [F#m] July.
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Two [A] brothers, _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ two [A] brothers on their way, _ [Bm] _
_ _ two [A] brothers on their _ [Bm] way.
_ _ One wore [B] blue _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
and [B] one _ [E] wore gray.
_ [Bm] _ As [C#] they _ marched [Bm] _ along [C#] their way, [D] the _ fife and drum _ [C#m] began _ _ to _ play.
[D] _ _ All on [E] a _ _ beautiful [F#] _ _ moor.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
One was [A] gentle, one was kind.
[Bm] _
_ One was [A] gentle, one was [Bm] kind.
_ _ One [A] came home, one stayed behind, [Bm] cause _ _ cannonball _ [Em] don't pay no [Bm] mind.
_ _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ Cannonball [Bm] don't pay [E] no _ mind.
[Bm] Though _ [C#] you're gentle [Bm] _
_ or [C#] you're _ kind, [D] _
_ don't think of [C#m]
the folks _ _ behind. _
[D] _ All [E] on a _ beautiful [F#] _ _ _ moor. _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ Two girls waiting by [F#m] the railroad track, _ _ [Bm] two girls waiting by [A] the railroad track. _ _
[Bm] For their darlings [A] _ to come back.
_ [F#m] _ [Bm] One wore blue [Em] and one _
_ [Bm] wore_
_ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ One _ [A] wore blue [Bm] and one [E] wore _ black, [Bm] _ _ waiting [C#] _ _
by [Bm] the railroad [C#] _ track.
_ [D] _ For their _ _ [C#m] darlings to come _ _ back.
[D] _ _ All [E] on a _ _ [F#] beautiful _ _ _ moor. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [C#] _ _ [B] _ _
_ [F#] _ [D] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [Bm] Boom, [F#m] bop, bop, boom, [B] bop, bop, [F#] boom.
[Bm] And Richmond is their doom.
_ There's a hundred [F#m] [Bm] still at Richmond.
Three hundred [F#m] [Em] dead at Gettysburg.
[Bm] And a [F#m] hundred [Em] more we never found.
[Bm] And a hundred [Em] more we never _ _ found.
_ But the [A] first [E] _ _ _ [F#] battalion's _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [F#] home. _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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