Jailhouse Of County Fife-The Elders

[00:11.84]In the jailhouse of county fife all good men did time [00:17.17]For celebrating good and bad with fists and a bottle of wine [00:22.60]Then in the cellblock late one night a rumor passed our way [00:27.47]Of a blanket and a rifle and three square meals a day [00:32.57]And three square meals a day [00:34.42] [00:58.22]Now in the winter we set sail from troubles and from pain [01:03.61]The new world came up on the bow somewhere the coast in maine [01:08.46]They signed us up right then and there every man and boy [01:13.63]And took us down to washington the place of our employ [01:19.70]We was off to fight that johnny reb in the name of uncle Sam [01:25.12]We'll chase 'em down with cannon balls [01:27.65]Til we reach the promised land [01:30.49]We're the union men of county fife [01:34.84]We'll fight to the very last man [01:38.13]Ohu [01:38.63] [02:00.55]We were rolled right through antietam the fighting hand to hand [02:05.52]Some how we gettysburg and we hardly lost a man [02:10.87]They paid us off in whiskey the one thing we could spend [02:16.06]Couse greenback union dollars we had nowhere to send [02:22.28]We was off to fight that johnny reb in the name of uncle sam [02:27.69]We'll chase 'em down with cannon balls [02:30.15]Til we reach the promised land [02:33.05]We're the union men of county fife [02:35.62]We'll fight to the very last man [02:37.32] [02:41.43]When we marched into atlanta we knew it was meant to be [02:46.50]We all knew general sherman was marching to the sea [02:51.65]Some say they had it coming some say we was blind [02:56.64]But we left everything that crossed our path [02:59.26]For the widows that they left behind [03:02.79]We was off to fight that johnny reb in the name of uncle sam [03:08.16]We'll chase 'em down with cannon balls [03:10.65]Til we reach the promised land [03:13.43]We're the union men of county fife [03:17.71]We'll fight to the very last man [03:21.78]We'll fight to the very last man [03:24.07]Hey [03:24.58]