Bem McCulloch-Steve Earle

[ti:Bem McCulloch (Album Version)] [ar:Steve Earle] [al:Train A Comin'] [offset:0] [00:01.38]Bem McCulloch (Album Version) [00:05.12]Steve Earle [00:07.39] [00:20.96]signed We up in San Antone my brother Paul and me [00:25.01] [00:26.01]To fight with Ben McCulloch and the Texas infantry [00:29.97] [00:31.03]Well the poster said we'd get a uniform and seven bucks a week [00:36.47]The best rations in the army and a rifle we could keep [00:41.23] [00:43.23]When I first laid eyes on the general I knew he was a fightin' man [00:47.91] [00:48.61]He was every inch a soldier every word was his command [00:53.18] [00:53.87]Well his eyes were cold as the lead and steel forged into tools of war [00:58.54] [00:59.54]He the took lives of many and the souls of many more [01:03.67] [01:06.10]Well they us marched to Missouri and we hardly stopped for rest [01:10.75] [01:11.87]Then he made this speech and said we're comin' to the test [01:15.88] [01:16.63]Well we've got to take Saint Louie boys before the yankees do [01:21.15] [01:22.28]If we control the Mississippi then the Federals are through [01:26.29] [01:28.60]Well they told us that our enemy would all be dressed in blue [01:33.37] [01:33.99]They forgot about the winter's cold cursed and the fever too [01:38.73]My brother died at Wilson's creek and Lord I him seen fall [01:43.82] [01:44.50]fell We back to the Boston Mountains in the North of Arkansas [01:49.82] [01:58.50]Goddamn you Ben McCulloch [02:00.76]I hate you more than any other man alive [02:04.06] [02:05.75]And when you die be you'll a foot soldier just like me [02:10.44] [02:11.19]In the devil's infantry [02:13.22] [02:18.27]And on the way to Fayetteville we cursed McCulloch`s name [02:22.06] [02:23.50]the And dead mourned that we'd left behind and we was carrying the lame [02:27.45] [02:28.45]I killed a boy the other night who'd never even shaved [02:33.21] [02:33.77]I don't even know what I'm fightin' for I ain't never owned a slave [02:38.98]So I snuck out of camp and then I heard the news next night [02:43.81] [02:44.37]The Yankees won the battle and McCulloch lost his life [02:49.13] [02:57.93]Goddamn you Ben McCulloch [03:00.27]I hate you more than any other man alive [03:04.41] [03:05.28]And when you die you'll be a foot soldier just like me [03:10.71]the devil's In infantry