If I am but a simple man, I've got no command of your written word I can only try and tell you the things I've seen and heard Listen to the picture forever etched on my mind The day that hell broke loose just north of May, right on along the Kennesaw line The day that hell broke loose just north of May, right on Oh, the sun rose high above us that morning on a clear and cloudy day A peck of wood tapped on the tree, soon be shot away While the heat blistered down through the leaves on the trees, the air seemed hot enough to catch fire The heavens seemed to be made of brass as the sun rose higher and higher Everything got real still and quiet, my old mess-mate Walter Hood Said, I believe them boys down there are up to something, you know it ain't no dang good While the storm broke and swept down on us and rumbled through the hills Walter sat and dropped his rifle, he said something to me about the whippoorwill Sammy, can't you hear them singing, singing for you and me All the Murray grays carry me back to Tennessee God bless the 1st and the 27th, Brown Rock City guards Nobody ever told me all the dying could be so hard Sammy, I think I've been hurting real bad, ain't this a hell of a day The best gonna leave me be now, I think I need some time to pray Oh you know how bad I've been wanting to go home, I couldn't see rightly how Oh Colonel Field ain't gonna have a choice this time, I think I'm gonna get my furloughed now Oh don't you tell me that you can't hear them singing for you and me Oh and all the Murray grays, oh carry me back to Tennessee, Tennessee I told you all I'm a simple man, I got no command of the written word I can only try and tell you the things I've seen and heard Listen to the picture forever etched on my mind The day that hell broke loose just north of May, read on along the Kennesaw line The day that hell broke loose just north of May, read on along the Kennesaw line Well I wish I was in the land of God and all the times there I'm not forgotten Look away Dixieland The day that hell broke loose just north of May, read on along the Kennesaw line The day that hell broke loose just north of May, read on along the Kennesaw line Thanks for watching!