[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!