Richmond is a Hard Road Lyrics
| Song | Richmond is a Hard Road |
| Artist | 2nd South Carolina String Band |
| Album | Hard Road |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| [00:00.000] | 作曲 : Daniel Decatur Emmett/1863 |
| [00:07.804] | Would you like to hear my song? I'm afraid it's rather long |
| [00:11.379] | Of the famous "On to Richmond" double trouble, |
| [00:14.881] | Of the half-a-dozen trips and half-a-dozen slips |
| [00:18.505] | And the very latest bursting of the bubble. |
| [00:21.942] | 'Tis pretty hard to sing and like a round, round ring |
| [00:25.392] | 'Tis a dreadful knotty puzzle to unravel; |
| [00:28.776] | Though all the papers swore, when we touched Virginia's shore |
| [00:32.314] | That Richmond was a hard road to travel. |
| [00:35.894] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [00:39.557] | Richmond is a hard road to travel |
| [00:42.796] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve |
| [00:46.490] | Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
| [00:56.689] | First, McDowell, bold and gay, set forth the shortest way, |
| [01:00.359] | By Manassas in the pleasant summer weather, |
| [01:03.573] | But unfortunately ran on a Stonewall, foolish man, |
| [01:07.056] | And had a "rocky journey" altogether; |
| [01:10.551] | And he found it rather hard to ride o'er Beauregard, |
| [01:13.979] | And Johnston proved a deuce of a bother, |
| [01:17.497] | And 'twas clear beyond a doubt that he didn't like the route, |
| [01:20.917] | And a second time would have to try another. |
| [01:24.407] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [01:27.834] | For Manassas is a hard road to travel; |
| [01:31.254] | Manassas gave us fits, and Bull Run made us grieve, |
| [01:34.796] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [01:44.932] | Next came the Wooly-Horse, with an overwhelming force, |
| [01:48.345] | To march down to Richmond by the Valley, |
| [01:51.847] | But he couldn't find the road, and his "onward movement" showed |
| [01:55.342] | His campaigning was a mere shilly-shally. |
| [01:58.793] | Then Commissary Banks, with his motley foreign ranks, |
| [02:02.238] | Kicking up a great noise, fuss, and flurry, |
| [02:05.653] | Lost the whole of his supplies, and with tears in his eyes, |
| [02:09.072] | From the Stonewall ran away in a hurry |
| [02:12.603] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [02:16.082] | For the Valley is a hard road to travel; |
| [02:19.398] | The Valley wouldn't do and we all had to leave, |
| [02:22.907] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [02:33.051] | Then McClellan followed soon, both with spade and balloon, |
| [02:36.631] | To try the Peninsular approaches, |
| [02:39.970] | But one and all agreed that his best rate of speed |
| [02:43.481] | Was no faster than the slowest of "slow coaches." |
| [02:46.786] | Instead of easy ground, at Williamsburg, he found, |
| [02:50.295] | A Longstreet indeed, and nothing shorter, |
| [02:53.712] | And it put him in the dumps, that spades wasn't trumps, |
| [02:57.153] | And the Hills he couldn't level as ordered. |
| [03:00.402] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve |
| [03:03.934] | For Longstreet is a hard road to travel - |
| [03:07.270] | Lay down the shovel, and throw away the spade |
| [03:10.924] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I'm afraid! |
| [03:20.900] | Then said Lincoln unto Pope, |
| [03:22.656] | "You can make the trip, I hope, |
| [03:24.422] | I will save the Universal Yankee nation, |
| [03:27.669] | To make sure of no defeat, I'll leave no lines of retreat, |
| [03:31.089] | And issue a famous proclamation." |
| [03:34.541] | But that same dreaded Jackson, this fellow laid his whacks, |
| [03:38.048] | And made him, by compulsion, a seceder |
| [03:41.296] | And Pope took rapid flight from Manassas' second fight, |
| [03:44.631] | 'Twas his very last appearance as a leader. |
| [03:48.085] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [03:51.504] | For Stonewall is a hard road to travel; |
| [03:54.799] | Pope did his very best, but was evidently sold, |
| [03:58.251] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I am told! |
| [04:08.295] | Last of all the brave Burnside, with his pontoon bridges, tried |
| [04:11.841] | A road no one had thought of before him, |
| [04:15.094] | With two hundred thousand men for the Rebel slaughter pen, |
| [04:18.551] | And the blessed Union flag waving o'er him; |
| [04:21.874] | But he met a fire like hell, of canister and shell, |
| [04:25.209] | That mowed his men down with great slaughter, |
| [04:28.578] | 'Twas a shocking sight to view, that second Waterloo, |
| [04:31.918] | And the river ran with more blood than water. |
| [04:35.465] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [04:38.969] | Rappahannock is a hard road to travel |
| [04:42.215] | Burnside got in a trap, which caused him for to grieve |
| [04:45.606] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [04:55.659] | We are very much perplexed to know who is the next |
| [04:58.840] | To command the new Richmond expedition, |
| [05:02.342] | For the Capital must blaze, and that in ninety days, |
| [05:05.723] | And Jeff and his men be sent to perdition. |
| [05:09.002] | We'll take the cursed town, and then we'll burn it down, |
| [05:12.419] | And plunder and hang up each cursed Rebel; |
| [05:15.757] | Yet the contraband was right when he told us they would fight |
| [05:19.060] | "Oh, yes, massa, they fight like the devil!" |
| [05:22.525] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [05:25.967] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel; |
| [05:29.291] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [05:32.822] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [00:00.000] | zuo qu : Daniel Decatur Emmett 1863 |
| [00:07.804] | Would you like to hear my song? I' m afraid it' s rather long |
| [00:11.379] | Of the famous " On to Richmond" double trouble, |
| [00:14.881] | Of the halfadozen trips and halfadozen slips |
| [00:18.505] | And the very latest bursting of the bubble. |
| [00:21.942] | ' Tis pretty hard to sing and like a round, round ring |
| [00:25.392] | ' Tis a dreadful knotty puzzle to unravel |
| [00:28.776] | Though all the papers swore, when we touched Virginia' s shore |
| [00:32.314] | That Richmond was a hard road to travel. |
| [00:35.894] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [00:39.557] | Richmond is a hard road to travel |
| [00:42.796] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve |
| [00:46.490] | Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
| [00:56.689] | First, McDowell, bold and gay, set forth the shortest way, |
| [01:00.359] | By Manassas in the pleasant summer weather, |
| [01:03.573] | But unfortunately ran on a Stonewall, foolish man, |
| [01:07.056] | And had a " rocky journey" altogether |
| [01:10.551] | And he found it rather hard to ride o' er Beauregard, |
| [01:13.979] | And Johnston proved a deuce of a bother, |
| [01:17.497] | And ' twas clear beyond a doubt that he didn' t like the route, |
| [01:20.917] | And a second time would have to try another. |
| [01:24.407] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [01:27.834] | For Manassas is a hard road to travel |
| [01:31.254] | Manassas gave us fits, and Bull Run made us grieve, |
| [01:34.796] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [01:44.932] | Next came the WoolyHorse, with an overwhelming force, |
| [01:48.345] | To march down to Richmond by the Valley, |
| [01:51.847] | But he couldn' t find the road, and his " onward movement" showed |
| [01:55.342] | His campaigning was a mere shillyshally. |
| [01:58.793] | Then Commissary Banks, with his motley foreign ranks, |
| [02:02.238] | Kicking up a great noise, fuss, and flurry, |
| [02:05.653] | Lost the whole of his supplies, and with tears in his eyes, |
| [02:09.072] | From the Stonewall ran away in a hurry |
| [02:12.603] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [02:16.082] | For the Valley is a hard road to travel |
| [02:19.398] | The Valley wouldn' t do and we all had to leave, |
| [02:22.907] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [02:33.051] | Then McClellan followed soon, both with spade and balloon, |
| [02:36.631] | To try the Peninsular approaches, |
| [02:39.970] | But one and all agreed that his best rate of speed |
| [02:43.481] | Was no faster than the slowest of " slow coaches." |
| [02:46.786] | Instead of easy ground, at Williamsburg, he found, |
| [02:50.295] | A Longstreet indeed, and nothing shorter, |
| [02:53.712] | And it put him in the dumps, that spades wasn' t trumps, |
| [02:57.153] | And the Hills he couldn' t level as ordered. |
| [03:00.402] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve |
| [03:03.934] | For Longstreet is a hard road to travel |
| [03:07.270] | Lay down the shovel, and throw away the spade |
| [03:10.924] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I' m afraid! |
| [03:20.900] | Then said Lincoln unto Pope, |
| [03:22.656] | " You can make the trip, I hope, |
| [03:24.422] | I will save the Universal Yankee nation, |
| [03:27.669] | To make sure of no defeat, I' ll leave no lines of retreat, |
| [03:31.089] | And issue a famous proclamation." |
| [03:34.541] | But that same dreaded Jackson, this fellow laid his whacks, |
| [03:38.048] | And made him, by compulsion, a seceder |
| [03:41.296] | And Pope took rapid flight from Manassas' second fight, |
| [03:44.631] | ' Twas his very last appearance as a leader. |
| [03:48.085] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [03:51.504] | For Stonewall is a hard road to travel |
| [03:54.799] | Pope did his very best, but was evidently sold, |
| [03:58.251] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I am told! |
| [04:08.295] | Last of all the brave Burnside, with his pontoon bridges, tried |
| [04:11.841] | A road no one had thought of before him, |
| [04:15.094] | With two hundred thousand men for the Rebel slaughter pen, |
| [04:18.551] | And the blessed Union flag waving o' er him |
| [04:21.874] | But he met a fire like hell, of canister and shell, |
| [04:25.209] | That mowed his men down with great slaughter, |
| [04:28.578] | ' Twas a shocking sight to view, that second Waterloo, |
| [04:31.918] | And the river ran with more blood than water. |
| [04:35.465] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [04:38.969] | Rappahannock is a hard road to travel |
| [04:42.215] | Burnside got in a trap, which caused him for to grieve |
| [04:45.606] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [04:55.659] | We are very much perplexed to know who is the next |
| [04:58.840] | To command the new Richmond expedition, |
| [05:02.342] | For the Capital must blaze, and that in ninety days, |
| [05:05.723] | And Jeff and his men be sent to perdition. |
| [05:09.002] | We' ll take the cursed town, and then we' ll burn it down, |
| [05:12.419] | And plunder and hang up each cursed Rebel |
| [05:15.757] | Yet the contraband was right when he told us they would fight |
| [05:19.060] | " Oh, yes, massa, they fight like the devil!" |
| [05:22.525] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [05:25.967] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel |
| [05:29.291] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [05:32.822] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [00:00.000] | zuò qǔ : Daniel Decatur Emmett 1863 |
| [00:07.804] | Would you like to hear my song? I' m afraid it' s rather long |
| [00:11.379] | Of the famous " On to Richmond" double trouble, |
| [00:14.881] | Of the halfadozen trips and halfadozen slips |
| [00:18.505] | And the very latest bursting of the bubble. |
| [00:21.942] | ' Tis pretty hard to sing and like a round, round ring |
| [00:25.392] | ' Tis a dreadful knotty puzzle to unravel |
| [00:28.776] | Though all the papers swore, when we touched Virginia' s shore |
| [00:32.314] | That Richmond was a hard road to travel. |
| [00:35.894] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [00:39.557] | Richmond is a hard road to travel |
| [00:42.796] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve |
| [00:46.490] | Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
| [00:56.689] | First, McDowell, bold and gay, set forth the shortest way, |
| [01:00.359] | By Manassas in the pleasant summer weather, |
| [01:03.573] | But unfortunately ran on a Stonewall, foolish man, |
| [01:07.056] | And had a " rocky journey" altogether |
| [01:10.551] | And he found it rather hard to ride o' er Beauregard, |
| [01:13.979] | And Johnston proved a deuce of a bother, |
| [01:17.497] | And ' twas clear beyond a doubt that he didn' t like the route, |
| [01:20.917] | And a second time would have to try another. |
| [01:24.407] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [01:27.834] | For Manassas is a hard road to travel |
| [01:31.254] | Manassas gave us fits, and Bull Run made us grieve, |
| [01:34.796] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [01:44.932] | Next came the WoolyHorse, with an overwhelming force, |
| [01:48.345] | To march down to Richmond by the Valley, |
| [01:51.847] | But he couldn' t find the road, and his " onward movement" showed |
| [01:55.342] | His campaigning was a mere shillyshally. |
| [01:58.793] | Then Commissary Banks, with his motley foreign ranks, |
| [02:02.238] | Kicking up a great noise, fuss, and flurry, |
| [02:05.653] | Lost the whole of his supplies, and with tears in his eyes, |
| [02:09.072] | From the Stonewall ran away in a hurry |
| [02:12.603] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [02:16.082] | For the Valley is a hard road to travel |
| [02:19.398] | The Valley wouldn' t do and we all had to leave, |
| [02:22.907] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [02:33.051] | Then McClellan followed soon, both with spade and balloon, |
| [02:36.631] | To try the Peninsular approaches, |
| [02:39.970] | But one and all agreed that his best rate of speed |
| [02:43.481] | Was no faster than the slowest of " slow coaches." |
| [02:46.786] | Instead of easy ground, at Williamsburg, he found, |
| [02:50.295] | A Longstreet indeed, and nothing shorter, |
| [02:53.712] | And it put him in the dumps, that spades wasn' t trumps, |
| [02:57.153] | And the Hills he couldn' t level as ordered. |
| [03:00.402] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve |
| [03:03.934] | For Longstreet is a hard road to travel |
| [03:07.270] | Lay down the shovel, and throw away the spade |
| [03:10.924] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I' m afraid! |
| [03:20.900] | Then said Lincoln unto Pope, |
| [03:22.656] | " You can make the trip, I hope, |
| [03:24.422] | I will save the Universal Yankee nation, |
| [03:27.669] | To make sure of no defeat, I' ll leave no lines of retreat, |
| [03:31.089] | And issue a famous proclamation." |
| [03:34.541] | But that same dreaded Jackson, this fellow laid his whacks, |
| [03:38.048] | And made him, by compulsion, a seceder |
| [03:41.296] | And Pope took rapid flight from Manassas' second fight, |
| [03:44.631] | ' Twas his very last appearance as a leader. |
| [03:48.085] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [03:51.504] | For Stonewall is a hard road to travel |
| [03:54.799] | Pope did his very best, but was evidently sold, |
| [03:58.251] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I am told! |
| [04:08.295] | Last of all the brave Burnside, with his pontoon bridges, tried |
| [04:11.841] | A road no one had thought of before him, |
| [04:15.094] | With two hundred thousand men for the Rebel slaughter pen, |
| [04:18.551] | And the blessed Union flag waving o' er him |
| [04:21.874] | But he met a fire like hell, of canister and shell, |
| [04:25.209] | That mowed his men down with great slaughter, |
| [04:28.578] | ' Twas a shocking sight to view, that second Waterloo, |
| [04:31.918] | And the river ran with more blood than water. |
| [04:35.465] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [04:38.969] | Rappahannock is a hard road to travel |
| [04:42.215] | Burnside got in a trap, which caused him for to grieve |
| [04:45.606] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [04:55.659] | We are very much perplexed to know who is the next |
| [04:58.840] | To command the new Richmond expedition, |
| [05:02.342] | For the Capital must blaze, and that in ninety days, |
| [05:05.723] | And Jeff and his men be sent to perdition. |
| [05:09.002] | We' ll take the cursed town, and then we' ll burn it down, |
| [05:12.419] | And plunder and hang up each cursed Rebel |
| [05:15.757] | Yet the contraband was right when he told us they would fight |
| [05:19.060] | " Oh, yes, massa, they fight like the devil!" |
| [05:22.525] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [05:25.967] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel |
| [05:29.291] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [05:32.822] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
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