[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.