The Valiant Conscript - Tennessee Ernie Ford.mp3

[00:00.00] 作曲 : Tennessee Ernie Ford/Jack Fascinato
[00:09.01]How are you, boys? I'm just from camp
[00:11.23]And feel as brave as Caesar
[00:13.53]The sound of bugle drum and fife
[00:15.67]Has raised my ebeneezer.
[00:17.77]I'm full of fight, odds shot and shell,
[00:20.30]I'll leap into the saddle
[00:22.24]And when the Yankees see me come,
[00:24.29]Lord how they will skedaddle!
[00:26.74]Hold your head up, Shanghai Shanks,
[00:28.74]Don't shake your knees and blink so;
[00:31.09]It is no time to dodge the act
[00:33.03]Brave comrades, don't you think so?
[00:35.74]
[00:40.02]I was a ploughboy in the field,
[00:42.07]A gawky lazy didger,
[00:44.27]When came the conscript officer
[00:46.47]And took me for a sodger.
[00:48.77]He put a musket in my hand
[00:50.77]And showed me how to fire it,
[00:53.12]I marched and counter-marched all day.
[00:55.16]Lord, how I did admire it!
[00:57.81]Hold your head up, Shanghai Shanks,
[00:59.86]Don't shake your knees and blink so;
[01:02.15]It is no time to dodge the act
[01:04.19]Brave comrades, don't you think so?
[01:06.94]
[01:11.18]With corn and hog fat for my food,
[01:13.33]And digging,guarding, drilling,
[01:15.57]I got as thin as twice-skimmed milk
[01:17.81]And was scarcely worth the killing.
[01:20.04]And now I'm used to homely fare,
[01:22.19]My skin as tough as leather,
[01:24.33]I do guard duty cheerfully
[01:26.53]In every kind of weather.
[01:30.43]
[01:42.35]"Tis true I have not seen a fight
[01:44.45]Nor have I smelt gunpowder,
[01:46.79]But then the way I'll pepper them
[01:48.94]Will be a sin to chowder.
[01:51.13]A sergeant's stripes I now will sport,
[01:53.32]Perhaps be colour-bearer,
[01:55.72]And then a captain--good for me,
[01:57.92]I'll be a regular tearer.
[02:00.18]
[02:13.54]I'll then begin to wear the stars
[02:16.11]And then the wreaths of glory,
[02:18.35]Until the army I command,
[02:20.49]And poets sing my story.
[02:22.74]Our Congress will pass votes of thanks
[02:24.93]To him thast rose from zero;
[02:27.11]The people in a mass will shout,
[02:29.26]"Hurrah! Behold the hero!"
[02:31.87]Hold your head up, Shanghai Shanks,
[02:33.77]Don't shake your knees and blink so;
[02:36.06]It is no time to dodge the act
[02:38.20]Brave comrades, don't you think so?
[02:40.69]
[02:44.35](He fires his gun by accident)
[02:45.06]What's that?
[02:47.66]What's that?Oh dear! A boiler's burst!
[02:50.56]A gaspipe has exploded!
[02:52.12]Maybe the Yankees are hard by with
[02:54.37]Muskets ready loaded.
[02:56.41]Oh gallant soldiers, beat 'em back.
[02:58.66]I'll join you in the frolic
[03:00.85]But I've a chill from head to foot,
[03:03.10]And symptoms of the colic.
[03:05.49]Hold your head up, Shanghai Shanks,
[03:07.54]Don't shake your knees and blink so;
[03:09.78]It is no time to dodge the act
[03:12.02]Brave comrades, don't you think so?