{"id":109677,"date":"2022-06-20T01:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=109677"},"modified":"2021-07-21T10:29:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T15:29:46","slug":"skedaddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/skedaddle\/","title":{"rendered":"Skedaddle"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1,2<\/sup><\/div>\n
adapted to music by John Molter 3<\/sup><\/div>\n
.<\/span><\/div>\n
\"Skedaddle<\/a>The shades of night were falling fast,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
As through a Southern village passed<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
A youth, who bore, not over nice,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
A banner with the gay device,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Skedaddle!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
.<\/span><\/div>\n
His hair was red, his toes beneath<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Peeped, like an acorn from its sheath,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
While with a frightened, voice he sang<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
A burden strange to Yankee tongue,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Skedaddle!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
.<\/span><\/div>\n
He saw no household fire where he<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Might warm his tod or hominy;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Beyond the Cordilleras shone,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
And from his lips escaped a groan,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Skedaddle!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
.<\/span><\/div>\n
“Oh! stay,” a cullered pusson said,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
“An’ on dis bossom res’ your hed!”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
The octoroon she winked her eye,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
But still he answered, with a sigh,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Skedaddle!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
.<\/span><\/div>\n
“Beware McClellan, Buell, and Banks,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Beware of Halleck’s deadly ranks!”.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
This was the planter’s last Good Night;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
The chap replied, far out of sight,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Skedaddle!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
.<\/span><\/div>\n
At break of day, as several boys<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
from Maine, New York and Illinois<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Were moving Southward, in the air<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
They heard these accents of despair,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Skedaddle!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
.<\/span><\/div>\n
A chap was found and at his side<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
A bottle, showing how he died,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Still grasping in his hand of ice<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
That banner with the strange device,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Skedaddle!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
.<\/span><\/div>\n
There in the twilight, thick and gray,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Considerably played out he lay;<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
And through the vapor, gray and thick,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
A voice fell like a rocket-stick,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Skedaddle!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n
    \n
  1. Moore, F. (1882). Skedaddle. In Anecdotes, poetry, and incidents of the War: North And south: 1860-1865<\/i>. New York: Arundel.<\/li>\n
  2. Aldrich, T. (1864). Skedaddle. In F. Moore (Editor), Songs of the Soldiers<\/i> (pp. 94-95). New York, New York: G. P. Putnam.<\/li>\n
  3. Molter, J. (1862). Skedaddle. H. M. Higgins, Chicago. [Notated Music] Retrieved 7\/21\/21 from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov\/item\/ihas.200000783\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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