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Thread #8328   Message #1902640
Posted By: Lighter
07-Dec-06 - 02:48 PM
Thread Name: Origin: The Girl I Left Behind Me
Subject: RE: Old US Army tune 'The Girl I Left Behind Me'
The theme of "The Horse Soldiers" doesn't sound much like "TGILBM" to me.

As I remember the words,

"I left my love, my love I left,
A-sleepin' in her be-ed.
I turned my back on my true love,
Went fightin' Johnny Reb.
Went fightin' Johnny Reb.

I left my love a letter
In the hollow of a tree,
I told her she could find me in
The U.S. cavalree.
In the U.S. cavalree!

Hi, ho, down they go,
There's no such word as ca-an't.
We'll all go down to New Or-leens
For Ulysses Simpson Grant.
For Ulysses Simpson Grant.
We'll all go down to HELL and BACK!!!
For Ulysses Simpson Grant."