Dixieland

Lyrics:

• Steve Earle - Album: The Mountain


• I am Kilrain and I'm a fightin' man and I come from County Clare
• And the Brits would hang me for a Fenian so I took me leave of there
• And I crossed the ocean in the "Arrianne" the vilest tub afloat
• And the captain's brother was a railroad man and he met us the boat
• So I joined up with the 20th Maine like I said my friend I'm a fighting man
• And we're marchin' south in the pouring rain and we're all goin' down to Dixieland


• I am Kilrain of the 20th Maine and we fight for Chamberlain
• ‘Cause he stood right with us when the Johnnies came like a banshee on the wind
• When the smoke cleared out of Gettysburg many a mother wept
• For many a good boy died there, sure, and the air smelted just like death


• I am Kilrain of the 20th Maine and I'd march to hell and back again
• For Colonel Joshua Chamberlain - we're all goin' down to Dixieland


• I am Kilrain of the 20th Maine and I damn all gentlemen
• Whose only worth is their father's name and the sweat of a workin' man
• Well we come from the farms and the city streets and a hundred foreign lands
• And we spilled our blood in the battle's heat
• Now we're all Americans


• I am Kilrain of the 20th Maine and did I tell you friend I'm a fightin' man
• And I'll not be back this way again, ‘cause we're all goin' down to Dixieland