The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-03
Communicated.
:. While We were Marching Through

while We were Marching Through
Georgia.
Last week the Excelsior Baseball Club,
Of Cincinnati, passed over the road to play
match games with clubs in Baltimore and
Washington. They sung with great glee
the following patriotic ballad. After hear
ing several tines we BECAME sgaT f2pS4fRsa5afG
and so we iotted down in the cars the stanzas
which follow. We suggest that they may
contribute somewhat toward the complete
ness and truthfulness of the group of bril-
liant pictures presented in the original
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MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA.
Bring the good old bugle, boys! we'll sing an
Sing it with that spirit that will start the world
Sing It as we used TO sing It fifty thousand strong
While we were marching through Georgia.
Chorus.
"'IIurrah hurrah We bring the jubilee.
Hurrah. hurrah /. the flag that makes you free"
So we sung the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,
While we ere marching through Georgia.
GLOW the darkies shouted when they heard the
joyful sound =
How The turkeys gobbled which our commissary
found
How the sweet potatoes even started from the
ground.
While we were marching through Georgia.
lN'D' "v'
eyes, and there were Union men who wcpt with
When they saw the honored flag they had not
seen for years:
Hardly could they he restrained from breaking
forth In cheers
While we were marching through Geqorgia.
ChOFuS.
"'shernan's dashing, Yankee boys will never
reach the coast
So the saucy rebels said; and twas handsome
boast,
Had they not forgot, alas to reckon with the
While we were marching through Georgia.
Chorus.
$50 we made 4 thoroughfare for Freedom and her
train
Sixty miles in latitude-three hundred to the
Treason lied before us, for resistance was In vain
While we were marching through Georgia.
DEDICATED TO THE EXCELSIOR BASEBALL CLUB
OF CINCINNATI.
An the way was clear, my boys,-no rebels did OPP
Fcaressly and safe we stragglei, gathering spoons
Picking up all handsome spoils that our bold war
- While we were marching through Georgia.
Chorus.
Hurrah hurrah the plumber all is free.
Hurrah hurrah we plfcr all we see.
So we SING the chorus from Atlanta to tho sea-
While we were marching through Georgia.
LOOK we sport Soiu watches now, ana cnalllS anu
fnger-ripgs,
Studs and breastpins in our dickies, packs of Shiny
things
Which We hid beneath our jackets, swung Oh cot
ton strings
While We we're marching through Georgia.
[Ch0rus.
Now our gray-eyed sweethearts dear Irvine in their
Sparkling, gems and jewelry-as diamonds, rubies,
soldierly inveigled by us from the crying girls
ms arch no. hrnYI Df o. N
[Chorus.
Tourniquet, with Yankee skill ripped from SOL
dicr's sash,
Twisted with a rarnrod round his hoary calabash.
Made many stubborn old man she'll his surplus
cash,
While we were marching through Georgia.
[Chorus.
Cody chaplain shared our pickings, snatched the
- tempting bait, @..
Packed in cotton carefully rich old communion
plate
Which he very piously for God did condscate
[Chor1s.
Jolly bonres, kindied nightly lighted up our way
Blazing out from homes and churches Darhs @lu
Sixty miles in latitude the night was bright as day
While We were marching through GeoFgGnha o,.,,s
Rich we found the country, and the planters
Rchtn ali the grains and fruits in southern cmes
When we Ie5s, behind US we're scant pcklngs for
When westi done marching through Georgia.
Chorus.
Hurrsht hnrrah the plumber all Is free!
Hurrah hurrah we pjlfer all we see
So we sung the chorus from Atlanta TO the sea,
While we were marching through Georgia.
- srt