Chords for Richmond is a Hard Road to Travel

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_ Would you [C#m] like to hear [F#m] my song?
I'm [A] afraid it's rather long
Of the famous road to [E] Richmond double trouble
Of the half a dozen [F#m] trips and the half a dozen [E] slips
And the very latest [A] bursting of the bubble
Tis [E] pretty hard to [D] sing and [A] like a rolling ring
Tis a dreadful knotty [E] puzzle to unravel
Though all the papers [D] swore when we reached Virginia [E] shore
That Richmond was a [A] hard road to travel
Yes, pull off your [D] overcoat and roll off your [A] sleeves
Richmond is a [E] hard road to travel
[A] Pull off your [D] overcoat and roll off your [E] sleeves
Richmond is a [A] hard road to travel, I believe
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[A] _ Then Lincoln [G#m] said to [F#m] Pope, you can make [A] the trip, I hope
And save the universal [E] Yankee nation
Do make sure of no defeat, [D] I'll leave no lines at every treat
[E] And I'll issue a [A] famous proclamation
But that [E] same dreaded [F#m] Jackson, that [A] fellow laid his wax on
And made him by [E] compulsion a seater
Till Pope could wrap in [D] flight in the middle of the [E] night
Was his very last [A] appearance as a leader
So pull [D] off your overcoat and roll off your [A] sleeves
For Richmond is a [E] hard road to travel
[A] Yes, pull off your [D] overcoat and roll off your [E] sleeves
For Richmond is a hard [A] road to travel, I believe
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_ Last of all, [E] Burnside, [F#m] with his pontoon [A] bridges tried
A road no one had thought [E] of before him
With 200 [G#m],000 men [D] from the rebel slaughter pen
And [E] the blessed Union flag [A] waving o'er him
And he met a [F#m] fire like hell of [A] canister and shell
That mowed down his men [E] with great slaughter
Plus a dreadful sight to [F#m] view, that second water
Lew [E] and the river ran with more [A] blood than water
So pull off your [D] overcoat and roll off your [A] sleeves
For Richmond is a [E] hard road to travel
[A] Well, pull off your [D] overcoat and roll off your [E] sleeves
For Richmond is a [A] hard road to travel, I believe
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_ We are very [E] much [F#m] perplexed to know [A] who is the next
To command the next [E] Richmond expedition
For the capital must [D] blaze and that in 90 [E] days
And Jeff and his men [A] descend to perdition
And when [E] we take the [F#m] town we will [A] surely burn it down
And plunder and [E] hang each cursed rebel
For the contraband was [F#m] right when they said
They would [E] fight those rebels, they will [A] fight like the devil
So pull off your [D] overcoat and roll off your [A] sleeves
For Richmond is a [E] hard road to travel
I said to pull off your [D] overcoat and roll off your [E] sleeves
For Richmond is a [A] hard road to travel, I believe _ _ _ _ _
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