The Lives of the Innocent

The Lives of the Innocent Shannon Slaughter © 2012 Elite Circuit Music

19 years when he told the farm goodbye / Last year’s stalks stiff as soldiers walking by
The leaves all lay scattered; cold and lifeless on the ground / Covered by the snow falling down

Mounted up he turned his sorrel north to ride / With his pistol and a rifle at his side
Headed to Virginia, farewell to Statesville town / In Southern Gray and Richmond bound

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Deep inside the coldest heart / Death pain and sorrow starts
Nothing left but sadness spent / On the lives of the innocent

Cannon fire broke the eerie morning still / Ten thousand comrades tried to take that hill
Gave out his dying breath in the smoke-filled air / The smell of death was everywhere

History’s written by the learned so they say / But it’s read through eyes who never saw the day
That poor farmer’s son paid for a rich man’s deed / And died for the sins of greed