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.