We'll Fight for Uncle Abe

Song We'll Fight for Uncle Abe
Artist Bobby Horton
Album Homespun Songs of the Union Army, Volume 1

Lyrics

[00:06.081] Way down in old Varginni,
[00:08.319] I suppose you all do know,
[00:11.116] They have tried to bust the Union
[00:14.474] But they find it is no go,
[00:17.564] The yankee boys are starting out
[00:20.370] De Union for to sabe,
[00:22.897] And we're marching down to Washington,
[00:26.529] To fight for Uncle Abe.
[00:29.608] Rip, Rap, Flip, Flap
[00:32.125] Strap your knapsacks on your back
[00:34.928] For we're a gwine to Washington
[00:37.444] To fight for Uncle Abe.
[00:44.357] There is General Grant at Vicksburg,
[00:47.151] Just see what he has done,
[00:49.393] He has taken sixty cannon
[00:53.310] And made the Rebels run,
[00:56.106] And next he will take Richmond
[00:58.909] I'll bet you half a dollar
[01:01.149] And if he catches Gen'ral Johnson
[01:04.785] Oh wont he make him holler.
[01:08.145] Rip, Rap, Flip, Flap
[01:10.949] Strap your knapsacks on your back
[01:13.475] For we're a gwine to Washington
[01:15.998] To fight for Uncle Abe.
[01:24.125] The season now is coming,
[01:26.917] When the roads begin to dry,
[01:29.441] Soon the army of the Potomac
[01:33.082] Will make the rebels fly,
[01:35.884] For General McClellan he's the man
[01:38.407] The Union for to sabe,
[01:40.923] O! Hail Columbia's right side up,
[01:44.845] And so's your Uncle Abe.
[01:47.917] Rip, Rap, Flip, Flap
[01:50.710] Strap your knapsacks on your back
[01:52.953] For we're a gwine to Washington
[01:55.755] To fight for Uncle Abe.
[02:04.142] You may talk of Southern Chivalry
[02:06.943] And cotton being king,
[02:09.182] But I guess before the war is done
[02:12.816] You'll think another thing,
[02:15.901] They say that recognition
[02:18.416] Will the rebel country sabe,
[02:20.936] But Johnny Bull and Mister France
[02:24.582] Are 'fraid of Uncle Abe.
[02:27.662] Rip, Rap, Flip, Flap
[02:30.460] Strap your knapsacks on your back
[02:32.970] For we're a gwine to Washington
[02:35.772] To fight for Uncle Abe.