文本歌词

Come all you loyal unionists wherever you may be
I hope you'll pay attention and listen unto me
For well you know the blood and woe the misery the toil
It took to down secession on Virginia's bloody soil
When our good old flag the Stars and Stripes from Sumter's walls was hurled
And high o'erhead on the forwardest walls the Rebels their flag unfurled
It aroused each loyal northern man and caused his blood to boil
For to see that flag Secession's rag float o'er Virginia's soil
Then from the hills and mountain tops there came that wild alarm
Rise up ye gallant sons of North our country calls to arms
Come from the plains o'er hill and dale ye hardy sons of toil
For our flag is trampled in the dust on Virginia's bloody soil
And thousands left their native homes some never to return
And many's the wife and family dear were left behind to mourn
There was one who went among them who from danger would ne'er recoil
Now his bones lie bleaching on the fields of Virginia's bloody soil
In the great fight of the Wilderness where many's the brave man fell
This captain led his comrades on through Rebel shot and shell
The wounded 'round they strewed the ground the dead lay heaped in piled
The comrades weltered in their blood on Virginia's bloody soil
The Rebels fought like fury just like tigers drove to bay
They knew full well if the truth they'd tell they could not win the day
It was hand to hand they fought 'em The struggle was fierce and wild
Till a bullet pierced our captain's brain on Virginia's bloody soil
And now our hero's sleeping with thousands of the brave
No marble slab does mark the place that shows where he was laid
He died to save our Union he's free of care and toil
Thank God The Stars and Stripes still wave above Virginia's soil