Kentucky Battle Song in the Southern Civil War

In the year '61 we left our homeland,
Because we couldn't bend our spirit
The severe command of the tyrant.
So we gathered around our Buckner,
While our hearts were sad and aching,
Offer our blood for freedom like our fathers
Done before...

And we will march! March! March!
To the music of the drum,
We were driven into exile,
From our old home in Kentucky...

When the Southern flag first flew
Its folds in the air,
Its stars had just gathered
The sons of Kentucky were there.
And we took a solemn and severe oath
Gather around
We would only live as free men in the
Dark and bloody land.

With Buckner as our leader
And Morgan in the van,
We will plant the flag of freedom
In our beautiful and happy land,
We will lead the tyrant's henchmen
At the flooding flood of the Ohio,
And dye its waves crimson
With cowardly Yankee blood.

So rejoice, brave southerners,
Soon you will see the day,
When the most beautiful daughters of Kentucky
It will cheer you on your journey,
Then their proud old mothers
She will welcome everyone,
Because united we remain,
But divided we fall!

Source: Musixmatch