The Story of a Soldier (From "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly")

Bugles are calling from prairie to shore
 "Sign up" and "Fall In" and march off to war
 Drums beating loudly hearts beating proudly
 March blue and grey and smile as you go
 Smoke hides the valleys and fire paints the plains
 Loud roar the cannons till ruin remains
 Blue grass and cotton, burnt and forgotten
 All hope seems gone, so soldier march on to die
 Count all the crosses and count all the tears
 These are the losses and sad souvenirs
 This devastation once was a nation
 So fall the dice, how high is the price?
 There in the distance, a flag I can see
 Scorched and in ribbons, but whose can it be
 How ends the story, whose is the glory?
 Ask if we dare, our comrades out there who sleep
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 Count all the crosses and count all the tears
 These are the losses and sad souvenirs
 This devastation once was a nation
 So fall the dice, how high is the price we pay?