{"id":4345,"date":"2019-07-14T17:01:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T21:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/?page_id=4345"},"modified":"2019-07-14T17:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T21:53:43","slug":"lyrics-anthology-not-against-my-own","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/?page_id=4345","title":{"rendered":"lyrics: the civil war anthology &#8211; not against my own"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>cd: The Civil War Anthology<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>track 7: Not Against My Own<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>My brother is a gray confederate, I consider it wrong<br \/>\nI stand behind our union president, though the struggle is long<br \/>\nBut should we march against his regiment, I could never fight on<br \/>\nI\u2019ve fought for love and life and liberty, but not against my own<br \/>\nWe traveled here from County Donegal, and our mother cried<br \/>\nWe heard the tales the land of bountiful, on the other side<br \/>\nSo we left our parents dear, for the life that we\u2019d find here<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>He left to mine the coal of Tennessee after we arrived<br \/>\nI stayed to work the docks at Providence there in \u201c55\u201d<br \/>\nThen the battle lines were drawn, and the war drags slowly on<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>His letters came with regularity telling of his strife<br \/>\nBeneath the ground he longed for Ireland and another life<br \/>\nBut then McPherson\u2019s Army called, he was the first to leave the hole<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow morn we march for Gettysburg, I will not be there<br \/>\nI could not fire into their ranks at my loving brother fair<br \/>\nThough our lives have grown apart, I could not forgive my heart<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>No braver lads will e\u2019er I know than the fighting \u201c69\u201d<br \/>\nA deserting coward I appear as they move to form the line<br \/>\nI\u2019d rather live with the disgrace than my mother\u2019s tortured face<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2005 All Rights Reserved<br \/>\nDulahan Music<br \/>\nWritten by Kyle Aughe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cd: The Civil War Anthology track 7: Not Against My Own My brother is a gray confederate, I consider it wrong I stand behind our union president, though the struggle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":323,"parent":4321,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4345","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4345","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=4345"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4365,"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4345\/revisions\/4365"}],"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\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dulahan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}