Joined the Blues
Says Stonewall Jackson to " Little Phil: " " Phil, have you heard the news?
Why, our " Joe" Wheeler — " Fighting Joe" — has gone and joined the blues.
" Ay, no mistake — I saw him come — I heard the oath he took —
And you'll find it duly entered up in yon great Record Book.
" Yes, " Phil," it is a change since then (we give the Lord due thanks)
When " Joe" came swooping like a hawk upon your Sherman's flanks!
" Why, " Phil," you knew the trick yourself — but " Joe" had all the points —
And we've yet to hear his horses died of stiff or rusty joints!
" But what of that? — the deed I saw to-day in yonder town
Leads all we did and all " Joe" did in troopings up and down;
" For, " Phil," that oath shall be the heal of many a bleeding wound,
And many a Southland song shall yet to that same oath be tuned!
" The oath " Joe" swore has done the work of thrice a score of years —
Ay, more than oath — he swore away mistrust and hate and tears! "
" Yes, yes, " says " Phil, " " he was, indeed, a right good worthy foe,
And well he knew, in those fierce days, to give us blow for blow.
" When " Joe" came round to pay a call — the commissaries said —
Full many a swearing, grumbling " Yank" went supperless to bed:
" He seemed to have a pesky knack — so Sherman used to say —
Of calling, when he should by rights be ninety miles away!
" Come, Stonewall, put your hand in mine, — " Joe"'s sworn old Samuel's oath —
We're never North or South again — he kissed the Book for both! "
Why, our " Joe" Wheeler — " Fighting Joe" — has gone and joined the blues.
" Ay, no mistake — I saw him come — I heard the oath he took —
And you'll find it duly entered up in yon great Record Book.
" Yes, " Phil," it is a change since then (we give the Lord due thanks)
When " Joe" came swooping like a hawk upon your Sherman's flanks!
" Why, " Phil," you knew the trick yourself — but " Joe" had all the points —
And we've yet to hear his horses died of stiff or rusty joints!
" But what of that? — the deed I saw to-day in yonder town
Leads all we did and all " Joe" did in troopings up and down;
" For, " Phil," that oath shall be the heal of many a bleeding wound,
And many a Southland song shall yet to that same oath be tuned!
" The oath " Joe" swore has done the work of thrice a score of years —
Ay, more than oath — he swore away mistrust and hate and tears! "
" Yes, yes, " says " Phil, " " he was, indeed, a right good worthy foe,
And well he knew, in those fierce days, to give us blow for blow.
" When " Joe" came round to pay a call — the commissaries said —
Full many a swearing, grumbling " Yank" went supperless to bed:
" He seemed to have a pesky knack — so Sherman used to say —
Of calling, when he should by rights be ninety miles away!
" Come, Stonewall, put your hand in mine, — " Joe"'s sworn old Samuel's oath —
We're never North or South again — he kissed the Book for both! "
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