{"id":4339,"date":"2019-07-14T16:58:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/?page_id=4339"},"modified":"2019-07-14T17:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T21:53:43","slug":"lyrics-anthology-bull-run","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/?page_id=4339","title":{"rendered":"lyrics: the civil war anthology &#8211; bull run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>cd: The Civil War Anthology<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>track 9: Bull Run<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We joined the Union army<br \/>\n4 years gone from county Cork<br \/>\nA corps of hardened Irish<br \/>\nfrom the ghettos of New York<br \/>\nWe followed brave McDowell<br \/>\nto a Manassas riverbed<br \/>\nAnd the water at Bull Run<br \/>\nruns blood red<\/p>\n<p>I brought my brother Seamus<br \/>\nand it took him to his death<br \/>\nI held him close against me<br \/>\nas he took his final breath<br \/>\nHe called to his dear Maggie<br \/>\nwho he never now will wed<br \/>\nAnd the water at Bull Run<br \/>\nruns blood red<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>With memories of old Ireland<br \/>\nsurging through my blood<br \/>\nI&#8217;m bogged down in Virginia,<br \/>\nin the bodies and the mud<br \/>\nMy brother lies beside me<br \/>\nwith a bullet in his head<br \/>\nAnd the water at Bull Run<br \/>\nruns blood red<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>They question our allegiance<br \/>\nare they blue or are they green<br \/>\nWe only hope to prove to be<br \/>\nthe best they&#8217;ve ever seen<br \/>\nHow can they choose to doubt us<br \/>\nwith so many hundred dead<br \/>\nAnd the water at Bull Run<br \/>\nruns blood red<\/p>\n<p>The rebel reinforcements<br \/>\nspelled our doom<br \/>\nwhen day was done<br \/>\nThey cut our ranks to pieces<br \/>\nwe were routed, overrun<br \/>\nI listen to the dying<br \/>\nand I fear what lies ahead<br \/>\nAnd the water at Bull Run<br \/>\nruns blood red<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>The horrors of the homeland<br \/>\nare imbedded in my mind<br \/>\nWe dreamed of our new freedom<br \/>\nand the hope we&#8217;d sure to find<br \/>\nSurrounded by this carnage<br \/>\nnow I question why I fled<br \/>\nAnd the water at Bull Run<br \/>\nruns blood red<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2003 All Rights Reserved<br \/>\nDulahan Music<br \/>\nWritten by Kyle Aughe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cd: The Civil War Anthology track 9: Bull Run We joined the Union army 4 years gone from county Cork A corps of hardened Irish from the ghettos of New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":326,"parent":4321,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4339","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4362,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4339\/revisions\/4362"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}