The Valiant Conscript chords by Tennessee Ernie Ford
Verse 1
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How
are you boys,
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I'm just from camp and feel as brave as Caesar
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The sound of bugle, drum,
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and fife has raised my Ebeneezer
I'm full of fight, odd shots,
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and shell, I'll leap into the saddle
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And when the yankees see me come, Lord
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how they will skedaddle
Verse 2
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Hold your head up Shanghai shanks, don't
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shake your knees and blink so
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It's no time to dodge the act, brave
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comrades don't you think so
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Verse 3
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I was a plow boy in the field,
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a gawking, lazy, dodger
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When came the conscript officer
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and took me for a soldier
He put a musket in my hand
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and showed me how to fire it
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I marched and counter- marched all day; Lord,
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how I did admire it
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Hold your head up Shanghai shanks, don't
Verse 4
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shake your knees and blink so
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It's no time to dodge the act, brave comrades
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don't you think so
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Verse 5
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With corn and hog fat for my food,
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a digging, guarding, drilling
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I got as thin as twice- skimmed milk and
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scarcely worth the killing
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And now I'm used to homely
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fare, my skin is tough as leather
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I do guard duty cheerfully in every kind of
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weather
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Verse 6
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'Tis true I have not seen a fight
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, nor have I smelt gunpowder
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But then the way I'll pepper them will
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be a sin to chowder
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A sergeant's stripes I now will sport,
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perhaps be color bearer
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And then a captain,
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good for me, I'll be a regular terror
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Verse 7
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I'll then begin to wear the stars
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and then the wreathes of glory
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Un til the army I command
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and poets sing my story
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Our congress will pass votes of
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thanks to him who rose from zero
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The people in a mass will shout, "Hur
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rah! Behold the Hero!"
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Hold your head up Shanghai shanks, don't
Verse 8
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shake your knees and blink so
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It's no time to dodge the act, brave comrades
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don't you think so
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Verse 9
What's that?
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What's that? Oh dear a boiler burst,
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a gas pipe has exploded
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Maybe the yankees are hard
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by with muskets ready loaded
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Oh gallant soldiers beat them
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back, I'll join you in the frolic
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But I've a chill from head to
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foot and symptoms of the colic
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Hold your head up Shanghai shanks, don't
Verse 10
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shake your knees and blink so
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It's no time to dodge the act, brave comrades
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don't you think so
It's no time to dodge the act, brave
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comrades don't you think so
The Valiant Conscript
Tennessee Ernie Ford
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