Richmond Is a Hard Road to Travel Lyrics
| Song | Richmond Is a Hard Road to Travel |
| Artist | Magpie |
| Album | The Civil War: Songs & Stories Untold (feat. Greg Artzner & Terry Leonino) |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| [00:00.000] | 作曲 : Traditional: Dan Emmett |
| [00:08.771] | Would you like to hear my song? I'm afraid it's rather long |
| [00:11.686] | Of the famous "On to Richmond" double trouble, |
| [00:14.789] | Of the half-a-dozen trips and half-a-dozen slips |
| [00:17.802] | And the very latest bursting of the bubble. |
| [00:20.883] | 'Tis pretty hard to sing and like a round, round ring |
| [00:23.968] | 'Tis a dreadful knotty puzzle to unravel; |
| [00:27.004] | Though all the papers swore, when we touched Virginia's shore |
| [00:30.031] | That Richmond was a hard road to travel. |
| [00:33.248] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [00:36.180] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel |
| [00:39.455] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve |
| [00:42.529] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
| [00:50.952] | First, McDowell, bold and gay, set forth the shortest way, |
| [00:53.804] | By Manassas in the pleasant summer weather, |
| [00:57.033] | But unfortunately ran on a Stonewall, foolish man, |
| [01:00.069] | And had a "rocky journey" altogether; |
| [01:03.107] | And he found it rather hard to ride o'er Beauregard, |
| [01:06.103] | And Johnston proved a deuce of a bother, |
| [01:09.225] | And 'twas clear beyond a doubt that he didn't like the route, |
| [01:12.255] | And a second time would have to try another. |
| [01:15.516] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [01:18.731] | For Manassas is a hard road to travel; |
| [01:21.707] | Manassas gave us fits, and Bull Run made us grieve, |
| [01:24.982] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [01:33.308] | Next came the Wooly-Horse, with an overwhelming force, |
| [01:36.171] | To march down to Richmond by the Valley, |
| [01:39.007] | But he couldn't find the road, and his "onward movement" showed |
| [01:42.269] | His campaigning was a mere shilly-shally. |
| [01:45.483] | Then Commissary Banks, with his motley foreign ranks, |
| [01:48.608] | Kicking up a great noise, fuss, and flurry, |
| [01:51.595] | Lost the whole of his supplies, and with tears in his eyes, |
| [01:54.589] | From the Stonewall ran away in a hurry |
| [01:57.479] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [02:00.752] | For the Valley is a hard road to travel; |
| [02:03.966] | The Valley wouldn't do and we all had to leave, |
| [02:07.084] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [02:15.507] | Then the great Galena came, with her portholes all aflame, |
| [02:18.482] | And the Monitor, that famous naval wonder, |
| [02:21.647] | But the guns at Drewry's Bluff gave them speedily enough, |
| [02:24.724] | The loudest sort of reg'lar Rebel thunder. |
| [02:27.802] | The Galena was astonished and the Monitor admonished, |
| [02:30.976] | Our patent shot and shell were mocked at, |
| [02:33.968] | While the dreadful Naugatuck, by the hardest kind of luck, |
| [02:37.044] | Was knocked into an ugly cocked hat. |
| [02:39.934] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [02:43.104] | James River is a hard road to travel; |
| [02:46.323] | The gun-boats gave it up in terror and despair, |
| [02:49.410] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I declare! |
| [02:57.336] | Then McClellan followed soon, both with spade and balloon, |
| [03:00.754] | To try the Peninsular approaches, |
| [03:03.835] | But one and all agreed that his best rate of speed |
| [03:06.772] | Was no faster than the slowest of "slow coaches." |
| [03:10.142] | Instead of easy ground, at Williamsburg, he found, |
| [03:13.133] | A Longstreet indeed, and nothing shorter, |
| [03:15.986] | And it put him in the dumps, that spades wasn't trumps, |
| [03:19.246] | And the Hills he couldn't level as ordered. |
| [03:22.364] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve |
| [03:25.480] | For Longstreet is a hard road to travel - |
| [03:28.466] | Lay down the shovel, and throw away the spade |
| [03:31.726] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I'm afraid! |
| [03:39.987] | Then said Lincoln unto Pope, |
| [03:41.565] | "You can make the trip, I hope, |
| [03:43.153] | I will save the Universal Yankee nation, |
| [03:46.142] | To make sure of no defeat, I'll leave no lines of retreat, |
| [03:49.314] | And issue a famous proclamation." |
| [03:52.535] | But that same dreaded Jackson, this fellow laid his whacks, |
| [03:55.525] | And made him, by compulsion, a seceder |
| [03:58.516] | And Pope took rapid flight from Manassas' second fight, |
| [04:01.596] | 'Twas his very last appearance as a leader. |
| [04:04.677] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [04:07.755] | For Stonewall is a hard road to travel; |
| [04:10.844] | Pope did his very best, but was evidently sold, |
| [04:14.210] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I am told! |
| [04:22.262] | Last of all the brave Burnside, with his pontoon bridges, tried |
| [04:25.440] | A road no one had thought of before him, |
| [04:28.613] | With two hundred thousand men for the Rebel slaughter pen, |
| [04:31.691] | And the blessed Union flag waving o'er him; |
| [04:34.825] | He met a fire like hell, of canister and shell, |
| [04:37.629] | That mowed his men down with great slaughter, |
| [04:40.978] | 'Twas a shocking sight to view, that second Waterloo, |
| [04:43.844] | And the river ran with more blood than water. |
| [04:47.011] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [04:49.993] | Rappahannock is a hard road to travel |
| [04:53.022] | Burnside got in a trap, which caused him for to grieve |
| [04:56.291] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [05:04.594] | We are very much perplexed to know who is the next |
| [05:07.765] | To command the new Richmond expedition, |
| [05:10.850] | For the Capital must blaze, and that in ninety days, |
| [05:13.776] | And Jeff and his men be sent to perdition. |
| [05:16.956] | We'll take the cursed town, and then we'll burn it down, |
| [05:20.034] | And plunder and hang up each cursed Rebel; |
| [05:23.110] | Yet the contraband was right when he told us they would fight |
| [05:26.101] | "Oh, yes, massa, they fight like the devil!" |
| [05:29.274] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [05:32.303] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel; |
| [05:35.527] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [05:38.650] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [05:41.594] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves, |
| [05:44.676] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel. |
| [05:47.791] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves, |
| [05:50.868] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
| [00:00.000] | zuo qu : Traditional: Dan Emmett |
| [00:08.771] | Would you like to hear my song? I' m afraid it' s rather long |
| [00:11.686] | Of the famous " On to Richmond" double trouble, |
| [00:14.789] | Of the halfadozen trips and halfadozen slips |
| [00:17.802] | And the very latest bursting of the bubble. |
| [00:20.883] | ' Tis pretty hard to sing and like a round, round ring |
| [00:23.968] | ' Tis a dreadful knotty puzzle to unravel |
| [00:27.004] | Though all the papers swore, when we touched Virginia' s shore |
| [00:30.031] | That Richmond was a hard road to travel. |
| [00:33.248] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [00:36.180] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel |
| [00:39.455] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve |
| [00:42.529] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
| [00:50.952] | First, McDowell, bold and gay, set forth the shortest way, |
| [00:53.804] | By Manassas in the pleasant summer weather, |
| [00:57.033] | But unfortunately ran on a Stonewall, foolish man, |
| [01:00.069] | And had a " rocky journey" altogether |
| [01:03.107] | And he found it rather hard to ride o' er Beauregard, |
| [01:06.103] | And Johnston proved a deuce of a bother, |
| [01:09.225] | And ' twas clear beyond a doubt that he didn' t like the route, |
| [01:12.255] | And a second time would have to try another. |
| [01:15.516] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [01:18.731] | For Manassas is a hard road to travel |
| [01:21.707] | Manassas gave us fits, and Bull Run made us grieve, |
| [01:24.982] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [01:33.308] | Next came the WoolyHorse, with an overwhelming force, |
| [01:36.171] | To march down to Richmond by the Valley, |
| [01:39.007] | But he couldn' t find the road, and his " onward movement" showed |
| [01:42.269] | His campaigning was a mere shillyshally. |
| [01:45.483] | Then Commissary Banks, with his motley foreign ranks, |
| [01:48.608] | Kicking up a great noise, fuss, and flurry, |
| [01:51.595] | Lost the whole of his supplies, and with tears in his eyes, |
| [01:54.589] | From the Stonewall ran away in a hurry |
| [01:57.479] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [02:00.752] | For the Valley is a hard road to travel |
| [02:03.966] | The Valley wouldn' t do and we all had to leave, |
| [02:07.084] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [02:15.507] | Then the great Galena came, with her portholes all aflame, |
| [02:18.482] | And the Monitor, that famous naval wonder, |
| [02:21.647] | But the guns at Drewry' s Bluff gave them speedily enough, |
| [02:24.724] | The loudest sort of reg' lar Rebel thunder. |
| [02:27.802] | The Galena was astonished and the Monitor admonished, |
| [02:30.976] | Our patent shot and shell were mocked at, |
| [02:33.968] | While the dreadful Naugatuck, by the hardest kind of luck, |
| [02:37.044] | Was knocked into an ugly cocked hat. |
| [02:39.934] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [02:43.104] | James River is a hard road to travel |
| [02:46.323] | The gunboats gave it up in terror and despair, |
| [02:49.410] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I declare! |
| [02:57.336] | Then McClellan followed soon, both with spade and balloon, |
| [03:00.754] | To try the Peninsular approaches, |
| [03:03.835] | But one and all agreed that his best rate of speed |
| [03:06.772] | Was no faster than the slowest of " slow coaches." |
| [03:10.142] | Instead of easy ground, at Williamsburg, he found, |
| [03:13.133] | A Longstreet indeed, and nothing shorter, |
| [03:15.986] | And it put him in the dumps, that spades wasn' t trumps, |
| [03:19.246] | And the Hills he couldn' t level as ordered. |
| [03:22.364] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve |
| [03:25.480] | For Longstreet is a hard road to travel |
| [03:28.466] | Lay down the shovel, and throw away the spade |
| [03:31.726] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I' m afraid! |
| [03:39.987] | Then said Lincoln unto Pope, |
| [03:41.565] | " You can make the trip, I hope, |
| [03:43.153] | I will save the Universal Yankee nation, |
| [03:46.142] | To make sure of no defeat, I' ll leave no lines of retreat, |
| [03:49.314] | And issue a famous proclamation." |
| [03:52.535] | But that same dreaded Jackson, this fellow laid his whacks, |
| [03:55.525] | And made him, by compulsion, a seceder |
| [03:58.516] | And Pope took rapid flight from Manassas' second fight, |
| [04:01.596] | ' Twas his very last appearance as a leader. |
| [04:04.677] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [04:07.755] | For Stonewall is a hard road to travel |
| [04:10.844] | Pope did his very best, but was evidently sold, |
| [04:14.210] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I am told! |
| [04:22.262] | Last of all the brave Burnside, with his pontoon bridges, tried |
| [04:25.440] | A road no one had thought of before him, |
| [04:28.613] | With two hundred thousand men for the Rebel slaughter pen, |
| [04:31.691] | And the blessed Union flag waving o' er him |
| [04:34.825] | He met a fire like hell, of canister and shell, |
| [04:37.629] | That mowed his men down with great slaughter, |
| [04:40.978] | ' Twas a shocking sight to view, that second Waterloo, |
| [04:43.844] | And the river ran with more blood than water. |
| [04:47.011] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [04:49.993] | Rappahannock is a hard road to travel |
| [04:53.022] | Burnside got in a trap, which caused him for to grieve |
| [04:56.291] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [05:04.594] | We are very much perplexed to know who is the next |
| [05:07.765] | To command the new Richmond expedition, |
| [05:10.850] | For the Capital must blaze, and that in ninety days, |
| [05:13.776] | And Jeff and his men be sent to perdition. |
| [05:16.956] | We' ll take the cursed town, and then we' ll burn it down, |
| [05:20.034] | And plunder and hang up each cursed Rebel |
| [05:23.110] | Yet the contraband was right when he told us they would fight |
| [05:26.101] | " Oh, yes, massa, they fight like the devil!" |
| [05:29.274] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [05:32.303] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel |
| [05:35.527] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [05:38.650] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [05:41.594] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves, |
| [05:44.676] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel. |
| [05:47.791] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves, |
| [05:50.868] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
| [00:00.000] | zuò qǔ : Traditional: Dan Emmett |
| [00:08.771] | Would you like to hear my song? I' m afraid it' s rather long |
| [00:11.686] | Of the famous " On to Richmond" double trouble, |
| [00:14.789] | Of the halfadozen trips and halfadozen slips |
| [00:17.802] | And the very latest bursting of the bubble. |
| [00:20.883] | ' Tis pretty hard to sing and like a round, round ring |
| [00:23.968] | ' Tis a dreadful knotty puzzle to unravel |
| [00:27.004] | Though all the papers swore, when we touched Virginia' s shore |
| [00:30.031] | That Richmond was a hard road to travel. |
| [00:33.248] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [00:36.180] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel |
| [00:39.455] | Then pull off your coat and roll up your sleeve |
| [00:42.529] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
| [00:50.952] | First, McDowell, bold and gay, set forth the shortest way, |
| [00:53.804] | By Manassas in the pleasant summer weather, |
| [00:57.033] | But unfortunately ran on a Stonewall, foolish man, |
| [01:00.069] | And had a " rocky journey" altogether |
| [01:03.107] | And he found it rather hard to ride o' er Beauregard, |
| [01:06.103] | And Johnston proved a deuce of a bother, |
| [01:09.225] | And ' twas clear beyond a doubt that he didn' t like the route, |
| [01:12.255] | And a second time would have to try another. |
| [01:15.516] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [01:18.731] | For Manassas is a hard road to travel |
| [01:21.707] | Manassas gave us fits, and Bull Run made us grieve, |
| [01:24.982] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [01:33.308] | Next came the WoolyHorse, with an overwhelming force, |
| [01:36.171] | To march down to Richmond by the Valley, |
| [01:39.007] | But he couldn' t find the road, and his " onward movement" showed |
| [01:42.269] | His campaigning was a mere shillyshally. |
| [01:45.483] | Then Commissary Banks, with his motley foreign ranks, |
| [01:48.608] | Kicking up a great noise, fuss, and flurry, |
| [01:51.595] | Lost the whole of his supplies, and with tears in his eyes, |
| [01:54.589] | From the Stonewall ran away in a hurry |
| [01:57.479] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [02:00.752] | For the Valley is a hard road to travel |
| [02:03.966] | The Valley wouldn' t do and we all had to leave, |
| [02:07.084] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [02:15.507] | Then the great Galena came, with her portholes all aflame, |
| [02:18.482] | And the Monitor, that famous naval wonder, |
| [02:21.647] | But the guns at Drewry' s Bluff gave them speedily enough, |
| [02:24.724] | The loudest sort of reg' lar Rebel thunder. |
| [02:27.802] | The Galena was astonished and the Monitor admonished, |
| [02:30.976] | Our patent shot and shell were mocked at, |
| [02:33.968] | While the dreadful Naugatuck, by the hardest kind of luck, |
| [02:37.044] | Was knocked into an ugly cocked hat. |
| [02:39.934] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [02:43.104] | James River is a hard road to travel |
| [02:46.323] | The gunboats gave it up in terror and despair, |
| [02:49.410] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I declare! |
| [02:57.336] | Then McClellan followed soon, both with spade and balloon, |
| [03:00.754] | To try the Peninsular approaches, |
| [03:03.835] | But one and all agreed that his best rate of speed |
| [03:06.772] | Was no faster than the slowest of " slow coaches." |
| [03:10.142] | Instead of easy ground, at Williamsburg, he found, |
| [03:13.133] | A Longstreet indeed, and nothing shorter, |
| [03:15.986] | And it put him in the dumps, that spades wasn' t trumps, |
| [03:19.246] | And the Hills he couldn' t level as ordered. |
| [03:22.364] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve |
| [03:25.480] | For Longstreet is a hard road to travel |
| [03:28.466] | Lay down the shovel, and throw away the spade |
| [03:31.726] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I' m afraid! |
| [03:39.987] | Then said Lincoln unto Pope, |
| [03:41.565] | " You can make the trip, I hope, |
| [03:43.153] | I will save the Universal Yankee nation, |
| [03:46.142] | To make sure of no defeat, I' ll leave no lines of retreat, |
| [03:49.314] | And issue a famous proclamation." |
| [03:52.535] | But that same dreaded Jackson, this fellow laid his whacks, |
| [03:55.525] | And made him, by compulsion, a seceder |
| [03:58.516] | And Pope took rapid flight from Manassas' second fight, |
| [04:01.596] | ' Twas his very last appearance as a leader. |
| [04:04.677] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [04:07.755] | For Stonewall is a hard road to travel |
| [04:10.844] | Pope did his very best, but was evidently sold, |
| [04:14.210] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I am told! |
| [04:22.262] | Last of all the brave Burnside, with his pontoon bridges, tried |
| [04:25.440] | A road no one had thought of before him, |
| [04:28.613] | With two hundred thousand men for the Rebel slaughter pen, |
| [04:31.691] | And the blessed Union flag waving o' er him |
| [04:34.825] | He met a fire like hell, of canister and shell, |
| [04:37.629] | That mowed his men down with great slaughter, |
| [04:40.978] | ' Twas a shocking sight to view, that second Waterloo, |
| [04:43.844] | And the river ran with more blood than water. |
| [04:47.011] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [04:49.993] | Rappahannock is a hard road to travel |
| [04:53.022] | Burnside got in a trap, which caused him for to grieve |
| [04:56.291] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [05:04.594] | We are very much perplexed to know who is the next |
| [05:07.765] | To command the new Richmond expedition, |
| [05:10.850] | For the Capital must blaze, and that in ninety days, |
| [05:13.776] | And Jeff and his men be sent to perdition. |
| [05:16.956] | We' ll take the cursed town, and then we' ll burn it down, |
| [05:20.034] | And plunder and hang up each cursed Rebel |
| [05:23.110] | Yet the contraband was right when he told us they would fight |
| [05:26.101] | " Oh, yes, massa, they fight like the devil!" |
| [05:29.274] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [05:32.303] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel |
| [05:35.527] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeve, |
| [05:38.650] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe! |
| [05:41.594] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves, |
| [05:44.676] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel. |
| [05:47.791] | Then pull off your overcoat and roll up your sleeves, |
| [05:50.868] | For Richmond is a hard road to travel, I believe. |
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