A thousand men are marching by A glassy stare in every eye As we pass the sky grows red We are not the living, but the dead. Our lives were lost, taken away Yet we all wanted to live another day Then guns and bullets toll’d our bell And we were the ones they sent to Hell. Far away, our loved ones grieve Told by ‘patriots’ they must believe Our sacrifice was for the cause And the reason they’re given is ‘just because…’ Our ghosts still dream of skies of blue For me, dear wife, I think of you T’was hard to leave you for fields of battle But you were spared the rasp of my death’s rattle. As the sun sets o’er this land once more Silence, where loud there was the cannons’ roar All is peace, where there was endless noise The guns are quiet, so let’s all rejoice. What’s done is done for evermore So never again will you open the door To greet me with a smile as we kiss again Because my love, you sleep alone, but with me there are a thousand men.