cd: The Civil War Anthology
track 4: Sultana
Sultana
The war was finally done
With the prison camps at Selma
And Andersonville
Releasing everyone
Sultana
You were there to show the way
Bring those Union soldiers home
Don’t make them suffer
One more southern day
Sultana
Make room a hundred more
They’ve no room to complain
When they’ve been starving
On a Cahaba Prison floor
Sultana
Did you feel the greed of man
Loaded four times your capacity
The money helped us
All to understand
And the captain
And the quarterman
Count up the dollar signs
How the Union man
Would pay a handsome due
And they don’t give a damn
If it costs a couple lives
To somehow make their
Post war dreams come true
Sultana
Did your heart give out that night
And the choice was the inferno
Or the cold black water
Everywhere in sight
Sultana
They were far too frail to swim
And the icy Mississippi
Opened up her arms
And let them in
Sultana
They endured the rebel knife
They survived a war of horror
Then perished in
The irony of life
They survived a war of horror
Then perished in
The irony of life
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Words & Music by Kyle Aughe