《Hood’s Old Brigade》歌词

[00:00:00] Hood's Old Brigade - Bobby Horton

[00:00:01] Composed by：traditional

[00:00:20] Twas midnight when we built our fires

[00:00:22] We march'd at half-past three

[00:00:24] We know not when our march shall end

[00:00:26] Nor care we follow Lee

[00:00:28] The starlight gleams on many a crest

[00:00:30] And many a well-tried blade

[00:00:32] This handful marching on the left

[00:00:34] This line is our Brigade

[00:00:37] Our line is short because it's veins

[00:00:40] So lavishly have bled

[00:00:42] The missing search the countless plains

[00:00:44] Whose battles it has led

[00:00:46] There are those Georgians on our right

[00:00:48] Their ranks are thinning too

[00:00:50] How in one company they say

[00:00:52] They now can count but two

[00:01:04] There's not much talking down the lines

[00:01:06] Nor shouting down the gloam

[00:01:08] For when the night is 'round us then

[00:01:10] We're thinking most of home

[00:01:14] I saw yon soldier startle when

[00:01:16] We passed an open glade

[00:01:18] Where the low starlight leaf and bough

[00:01:20] A fairy picture made

[00:01:22] Nor has he uttered word since then

[00:01:24] My heart can whisper why

[00:01:26] 'Twas like the spot in texas where

[00:01:28] He bade his love good-by

[00:01:32] And when beyond us carelessly

[00:01:34] Some soldier sang adieu

[00:01:36] My comrade here across his eyes

[00:01:38] His coarse sleeve roughly drew

[00:01:40] So scarcely sound save trampling feet

[00:01:42] Is echoed through the gloom

[00:01:44] Because when stars are brightest then

[00:01:46] We're thinking most of home

[00:02:07] Hush what an echo startles up

[00:02:09] Around this rocky hill

[00:02:11] Was't shell half-buried struck my foot

[00:02:14] Or stay-'tis a human skull

[00:02:16] This ridge I surely seem to know

[00:02:18] By light of yon rising moon

[00:02:20] Ha we battled here three mortal hours

[00:02:22] One Sunday afternoon

[00:02:25] Last Spring see where our Captain stands

[00:02:27] His head drooped on his breast

[00:02:29] At his feet that heap of bones and earth

[00:02:31] You know now why his rest

[00:02:33] Is broke off and why his sword was

[00:02:36] So bitter in the fray

[00:02:37] 'Tis the grave of his only brother who

[00:02:40] Was killed that awful day

[00:03:00] Hush for in front I heard a shot

[00:03:02] And then a well-known cry

[00:03:05] It is the foe see where the flames

[00:03:07] Mount upward to the sky

[00:03:09] It is the foe Halt Rest we here

[00:03:11] We wait the coming sun

[00:03:13] And ere these stars may shine again

[00:03:15] A field is lost or won

[00:03:18] Is won

[00:03:19] It is the

[00:03:19] Old Brigade

[00:03:20] This line of stalwart men

[00:03:22] The long roll

[00:03:23] How it thrills my heart

[00:03:25] To hear that sound again

[00:03:26] God shield us boys

[00:03:28] Here breaks the day

[00:03:29] The stars begin to fade

[00:03:30] Now steady here fall in fall in

[00:03:33] Forward the

[00:03:34] 'Old Brigade'