Steve Earle - Dixieland

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i Am kilrain and i’m a fightin’ man and i come from county clare
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and the brits would hang me for a fenian so i took me leave of there
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and i crossed the ocean in the “arrianne” , the vilest tub afloat
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and the captain’s brother was a railroad man and he met us at the boat
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so i joined up with the 20th maine like i said my friend i’m a fighting man
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and we’re marchin’ south in the pouring rain
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we’re all goin’ down to dixieland

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i Am kilrain of the 20th maine and we fight for chamberlain
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’cause he stood right with us when the johnnies came like a banshee on the wind
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in the smoke smeared hell of gettysburg many a mother wept
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for many a good boy died there , sure , and the air smelt just like death
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i Am the kilrain of the 20th maine and i marched to hell and back again
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for colonel joshua chamberlain –
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we’re all goin’ down to dixieland

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i Am the kilrain of the 20th maine and i damn all gentlemen
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whose only worth is their father’s name and the sweat of a workin’ man
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well we come from the farms and the city streets and a hundred foreign lands
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and we spilled our blood in the battle’s heat now we’re all americans
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i Am the kilrain of the 20th maine did i tell you friend i’m a fightin’ man
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and i’ll not be back this way again ,
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’cause we’re all goin’ down to dixieland