blue and grey – muddled musings of a mangled mind

Johnny comes marching home

Johnny comes marching home The year of Eighteen Sixty Five Lincoln, shot and dead The war was all but over Destruction in it’s stead Blue and Grey divided A nation great and strong Was there ever a true winner? So much of this was wrong Brothers against brothers Tearing families apart It was a war…

February 7, 2015

Roger Turner

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The Hatfield and The McCoy

She was a Hatfield And I a McCoy It was just love beween A girl and a boy Our daddies grandaddies And those from before Might think us irreverant To open that door She lived two towns over It was love at first sight…. We would slip out and meet Every Sat. night The neighbors…

February 1, 2014

Roger Turner

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Johnny Comes Marching Home

The year of Eighteen Sixty Five Lincoln, shot and dead The war was all but over Destruction in it’s stead Blue and Grey divided A nation great and strong Was there ever a true winner? So much of this was wrong Brothers against brothers Tearing families apart It was a war with different issues…

January 21, 2014

Roger Turner

american civil war, blue and grey, poetry, politics, rememberance, War

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