Civil Liberties chords by Bob Cheevers

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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Confederate and moderate
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Until      the
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war I hadn't thought
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That I was more than
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just a southern boy
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Of seventeen or so
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But rabid dogs and
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charred white churches
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Gangrene limbs and fu neral coaches
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Stood in front of recollections
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That would never grow
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Many balls and muskets
Held a key to empty caskets
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Cannon fodder, mothered mop
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Determined who went on
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Kids who wore a captain's rank
Were walking through this graveyard
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Thanking him for the very breath
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That got them through till dawn
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Oh, civil liberty, right at all, at all
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Oh, civil liberty, right at all,
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at all
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Borigard's united army
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Gave the Union what
they bargained for
When he was victor at the
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Battle of  Bull Run
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Late the night before
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the fight    he screamed
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While in a dream he tried to
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He reconciled the headway
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that     his marching had begun
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Yes and on  and on and on and on
I fought my way from bloody pawn
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A bayonet like a lookout mountain
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split me up aside
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The bullets were so thick
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to make the sky turn black
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And I got sick while laying in the
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dirt with dead men
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Trying not to die
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And oh, civil liberty is riding on it all
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Oh, oh, civil liberty
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Riding on and on
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My only brother lost an arm
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In the dead of winter, the day I found
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Taken over in the fiery siege
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that Sherman said would come
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He burned and killed it to the sea
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He was a madman who was
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predis      posed
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By thoughts   malignant
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in his soul
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Setting people free
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Chestnuts and trees and
weeping willows
Burned out fields and
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sleepy hollows
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Smolders and we're half again
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As dead as they could be
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Yes, I made it to Atlanta
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But I died way back
at Bloody Pond
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Shiloh is the      resting place
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for all that's left of me
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And no civil liberty riding on at all
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Oh, civil liberty riding on at all
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