From the recording After All This Time
Gettysburg (2024) – A late friend of mine pointed out to me once that the first song on my records “seem to set the ground rules.” I wrote this to do just that…so this one is for Bonnie.
Lyrics
GETTYSBURG
It’s by chance here that we’ve met
And soon enough we’ll have to set
Our Collins bayonets to hold the line
But I can tell how you’re so proud
Although the march is quick and loud
You don’t mind
But when that hill is hard to climb
And the captains fall behind
Well the ghosts tell the same story every time...
We’re all in this just not together
The ties that bound us are threadbare and weathered
The mother of all of us knows we’re out to get her
Still we’re all in this, just not together
We’re all in this,
just not together
(Maybe something good will come from this)
packs once heavy, now light as a feather
(as you’re thinking ‘bout the ones you miss)
As the creek floods and blood runs
through this nasty weather
(Maybe something good will come from this)
all in this just not together
We’re all in this…