What are the lyrics to the song 'regimental drummer' by Michael English?

Answer 1

He ran off to find adventure

At the tender age of nine

Like so many other sons

Of old Virginia

Though he was too small to hold a rifle

He would bang his drum and smile

As a regimental drummer for a while

With a heart as green as summer

And a laugh as rich as gold

He would polish up the old dreams

So long forgotten

Somewhere on the road back home from Shiloh

He got older than his years

As a regimental drummer cried our tears

In his eyes I'd sometime see

The boy that I used to be

For a moment I could leave this all behind

All at once the boy was gone

Lost on the road we're on

Just another

Fallen brother

I still think of him each morning

And I pray for him each night

Just a regimental drummer

From old Virginia

And when I close my eyes I still remember

How he'd bang his drum and smile

So I march a little farther

When I hear the drummers call

For the regimental drummer in us all

Innocence in me has died

Lost somewhere deep inside

Like another fallen brother

Now the dusty road's behind me

To the one still up ahead

There's a regimental drummer

From old Virginia

Who will always fall in step beside me

And bang his drum and smile

So I march a little farther

When I hear the long row start

For the regimental drummer

In my heart