[00:08.154] All you Southerners now draw near,
[00:11.434] Unto my story approach you here,
[00:15.225] Each loyal Southerner's heart to cheer,
[00:18.873] With the victory gained at Shiloh.
[00:25.189] O it was on April of sixteenth day,
[00:28.892] In spite of a long and muddy way,
[00:32.665] We landed safe at Corinth Bay
[00:36.353] All on our route to Shiloh,
[00:42.564] That night we lay on the cold ground,
[00:46.253] No tents nor shelters could we find;
[00:49.792] And in the rain we almost drowned
[00:53.442] All on our way to Shiloh.
[01:07.332] Next morning a burning sun did rise
[01:11.113] Beneath the eastern cloudless sky,
[01:14.762] And General Beauregard replied:
[01:18.738] "Prepare to march to Shiloh."
[01:24.725] And when our Shiloh hove in view,
[01:28.457] It would the bravest hearts subdue
[01:32.291] To see the Yankee mighty crew
[01:36.219] That held the works at Shiloh.
[01:42.063] For they were strongly fortified
[01:45.707] With batteries on the river-side.
[01:49.541] Our generals viewed the plains and cried:
[01:53.378] "We'll get hot work at Shiloh."
[02:07.088] And when those batteries strove to gain,
[02:11.015] The balls fell around us thick as rain,
[02:14.945] And many a hero there was slain,
[02:18.541] Upon the plains of Shiloh.
[02:24.758] The thirty-third and the Zouaves,
[02:28.549] They charged the the batteries and gave three cheers,
[02:32.376] And General Beauregard rang the airs '
[02:35.974] With Southern steel at Shiloh.
[02:49.918] Their guns and knapsacks they threw down,
[02:53.935] They ran like hares before the hounds.
[02:57.675] The Yankee Dutch could not withstand
[03:01.601] The Southern charge at Shiloh.
[03:08.056] Now many a pretty maid did mourn
[03:11.705] A lover who'll no more return;
[03:15.586] The cruel war has from her torn;
[03:19.333] His body lies at Shiloh.