Railroad bridge is washing down the gorge at Sandy Where you stand there on the shoreline, oh will you come Come
This might be the last ketch running, might not be no While they bloody up the water upstream, making war war
Oh, Lee, reckon I got to go Cross and points below
By the tobacco's ripe and ready to be dried They might come and me if I've got no place to hide Place to
If I am I might have join the war One side or another, I may see your face no Face no
Oh, Lee, reckon I got to go Caroline and points below
This is my faithful promise which I make of my free I may point my gun and but I won't shoot to kill to kill
I'll keep picture with me, right here near my heart Inside this leather notebook, thick to stop a dart Stop a
Follow in the footsteps of the As it rolls east to west and back me like a stranger if I ever cross your door Another faceless soldier in the time of war
I you don't love me but you could if you took time I got a like Lincoln, and if ugly was a crime Was a
They'd me up and throw away the key down clear to hell But I got a disposition sweet as in the dell In the
Oh, Barbara Lee, I got to go Cross Caroline and below
in the sugar bin and honey in the hive I do what I have to do in to survive To
they do in civil war, in peacetime they call crime Climb inside my dream of and pray for better times times
Oh, Barbara Lee, I got to go Cross and points below Oh, Barbara Lee, I got to go Cross Caroline and points