The Valiant Conscript - Tennessee Ernie Ford.mp3

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Tennessee Ernie Ford/Jack Fascinato
[00:08.903]How are you boys?
[00:10.196]I’m just from camp.
[00:11.214]And fell as a Caesar.
[00:13.273]The sound of bugle drum and fife.
[00:15.589]Has raised my ebeneezer.
[00:17.652]I’m full of fight odds shot and sell
[00:19.714]I’ll leap into the saddle.
[00:22.240]And when the Yankees see me come
[00:24.268]Lord how they will skedaddle.
[00:26.566]Hold your head up Shanghai Shanks
[00:28.623]Don’t shake your knees and blink so.
[00:30.930]It is no time to dodge the act
[00:32.992]Brave comrades don’t you think so.
[00:39.984]I was a ploughboy in the field
[00:41.780]A gawky lazy didger.
[00:44.083]When came the conscript officer
[00:46.161]And took me for a soldier.
[00:48.478]He put a musket in my hand
[00:50.780]And showed me how to fire it.
[00:53.105]I marched and counter-marched all day
[00:55.426]Lord how I did admire it!
[00:57.746]Hold your head up Shanghai Shanks
[00:59.788]Don’t shake your knees and blink so.
[01:02.123]It is no time to dodge the act
[01:04.165]Brave comrades don’t you think so.
[01:11.077]With corn and hog fat for my food
[01:13.394]And digging guarding drilling.
[01:15.439]I got as thin as twice-skimmed milk
[01:17.493]And was scarely worth the killing.
[01:20.077]And no I’m used to homely fare
[01:22.151]my skin as tough as leather.
[01:24.493]I do guard duty cheerfully
[01:26.532]In every kind of weather.
[01:29.103]Dixie’s ditty
[01:42.453]Tis true I have not seen a fight
[01:44.745]Nor have smelt gunpowder.
[01:47.067]But then the way I’ll pepper them.
[01:49.139]Will be a sin to chowder.
[01:51.476]A sergeant’s stripes I now will sport.
[01:53.521]Perhaps be colour-bearer.
[01:55.817]And then a captain good for me.
[01:57.879]I’ll be a regular tearer.
[02:00.444]Dixie’s ditty
[02:13.744]I’ll then begin to wear the stars.
[02:16.045]And then the wreaths of glory.
[02:18.374]Until the army I command.
[02:20.194]And poets sing my story.
[02:22.720]Our Congress will pass votes of thanks.
[02:24.764]To him thast rose from zero.
[02:27.030]The people in a mass will shout.
[02:29.082]Hurrah!
[02:30.086]Behold the hero!”
[02:31.629]Hold your head up Shanghai Shanks
[02:33.615]Don’t shake your knees and blink so.
[02:36.182]It is no time to dodge the act
[02:37.981]Brave comrades don’t you think so.
[02:44.445]Boom------------------
[02:45.217]What’s that!
[02:47.786]What’s that! Oh dear.
[02:48.813]A bolier’s burst!
[02:49.837]A gaspipe has exploded!
[02:51.867]Maybe the Yankees are hard by with.
[02:54.220]Muskets ready loaded.
[02:56.287]Oh gallant soldiers, beat’em back.
[02:58.362]I’ll join you in the frolic.
[03:00.891]But I’ve chill from head to foot.
[03:02.950]And symptoms of the colic.
[03:05.264]Hold your head up Shanghai Shanks
[03:07.330]Don’t shake your knees and blink so.
[03:09.906]It is no time to dodge the act
[03:11.682]Brave comrades don’t you think so.
[03:19.124]It is no time to dodge the act
[03:20.946]Brave comrades don’t you think so.