Chickamauga (Take Me Home) Lyrics

Well it all started out in Chattanooga In that bloody war where I've never had a say

I never thought it right to own another man, I'm just fighting trying to keep my home at bay

And Briggs said, boys you'd best be on time. If they march us back to that county line

They're gonna take our trains

Well it wouldn't be more than a day or two, and this bloody war would all but be through 40,000 men

And I would die in Chickamauga

That cold bloody ground in Chickamauga

Well they march us back to those county lines I'm gonna take that city back or I'll die trying

And that's where I watched my cousin die not here ten years, and he's already lost his life

Oh, on the ground in Chickamauga

That cold dirty ground in Chickamauga

Saying take me home, take me home, take me home

Take me home, take me home, take me home

It was the coldest night of my life

The blood, it nearly froze right to your face

A bunch of Irish boys in the Georgia mountains

What the hell are we doing here in the first place

Well I'm tired of watching my brothers die

And I'm tired of giving up everything I have

I'd rather starve to death in the hills of my home

Than take the life of another man

But the rain kept falling and the bullets kept flying

It seems this dirty war will never end

I may have froze to death or I could have been shot

To be honest it doesn't matter what did me in

Now I can finally go home I can see my kin

Curse the ground in Chickamauga

That cold, bloody ground in Chickamauga

Saying take me home, take me home, take me home

Take me home, Take me home, Take me home

Take me home, Take me home, Take me home

Take me home, Take me home, Take me home