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  • We signed up in san antone my brother paul and me
  • To fight with ben mcculloch and the texas infantry
  • Well the poster said wed get a uniform and seven bucks a week
  • The best rations in the army and a rifle we could keep
  • When I first laid eyes on the general I knew he was a fightin man
  • He was every inch a soldier every word was his command
  • Well his eyes were cold as the lead and steel forged into tools of war
  • He took the lives of many and the souls of many more
  • Well they marched us to missouri and we hardly stopped for rest
  • Then he made this speech and said were comin to the test
  • Well weve got to take saint louie boys before the yankees do
  • If we control the mississippi then the federals are through
  • Well they told us that our enemy would all be dressed in blue
  • They forgot about the winters cold and the cursed fever too
  • My brother died at wilsons creek and lord I seen him fall
  • We fell back to the boston mountains in the north of arkansas
  • Chorus
  • Goddamn you ben mcculloch
  • I hate you more than any other man alive
  • And when you die youll be a foot soldier just like me
  • In the devils infantry
  • And on the way to fayetteville we cursed mcculloch`s name
  • And mourned the dead that wed left behind and we was carrying the lame
  • I killed a boy the other night whod never even shaved
  • I dont even know what Im fightin for I aint never owned a slave
  • So I snuck out of camp and then I heard the news next night
  • The yankees won the battle and mcculloch lost his life

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