Gray and blue coats dividing us all.
They say it's united we stand, and divided we fall.
Forgive me brother, for our beliefs are not the same.
Forgive me mother, for we have only each other to blame.

The orders came down and I can't take it.
We will kill each other, hoping that we're going to make it.
I took my fathers pistol from under his bed
I met the others and we left without a word being said.

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I grabbed my brother and I jumped holding his hand.
We've got eighteen soldiers firing down on this man.
We hit the water as we fell from on the bridge that day.
Down the river we went, with only each other to blame.

The current took us eleven miles from home.
Footsteps through the forest found us all alone.
A shot heard off in the distance burned my sleeve.
My brother held my head as I continued to bleed.

[repeat chorus]