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Lyr Add: Stonewall

Joe Offer 24 May 20 - 01:58 AM
GUEST,cnd 24 May 20 - 03:01 AM
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Subject: Lyr Add: Stonewall
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 May 20 - 01:58 AM

Another song to explore:

Casey Neill and the Norway Rats – Stonewall

the war has ended (let us cross the river)
the battle has passed (lie easy in the shade)
may we heal all the wounded (let us cross the river)
and not be downhearted (lie easy in the shade)

we'll bury our dead (let us cross the river)
and lay them in the ground and they'll (lie easy in the shade)
their gravestones proudly standing (let us cross the river)
underneath the crooked trees (lie easy in the shade)

again we'll see our loved ones (let us cross..)
we have been so long apart ( lie easy...)
how my heart it does leap (let us cross...)
to see my own sweet Annie (and lie easy..)

my children my children (let us..)
my children my children (lie easy..)
may we heal all the wounded (let us cross the river)
and not be downhearted (lie easy in the shade)


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Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Stonewall
From: GUEST,cnd
Date: 24 May 20 - 03:01 AM

The lyrics in parenthesis are pretty clearly based off of Stonewall Jackson's dying words. The rest of the lyrics seem to be original.

You can listen to the song here on Spotify

If I had to bet on the song's meaning, my first guess is that it's really a tribute to fallen soldiers using Jackson's famous deathbed prose. Though I briefly thought it could have a veiled message re the Civil War, I decided that the second to last stanza wouldn't fit that message


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