Songs:Sue Mundy (110978)

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Thirteen steps up to my grave no more the black flag will I wave

Preacher tells me I’ve been saved calling me Sue Mundy

Marcellus Clarke is my true name Simpson County’s pride and shame

Raising horses, hemp and slaves a son of old Kentucky

The Orphan Grey I did put on captured at Fort Donaldson with my pardon I walked home just a poor

Civilian but Brainbridge called in marshall law for every Federal dead now he’d hang four

Whispering behind their doors there goes a rebel soldier

So I took to murder then stealing horses, robbing men burning wagons, bending rails

we were always hungry Lord give me corn and give me beans faster horses and the means

To kill the Yankees as I please and take back my good country

When I was younger, fancy free I dressed in ladies finery

To make a proud girl notice me the boys called me Sue Mundy

When George Prentis heard this name he thought to bring the Yankees shame

He wrote that a guerrilla band was lead by a girl, Sue Mundy

The Federals then pressed us hard and trapped us in a farmers barn

I surrendered as a prisoner of war they said you’ll hang, said you’ll hang, said you’ll hang Sue Mundy

Retribution, sacrificial lamb no defense witness took the stand

Twelve thousand heard the band play the Dead March for Sue Mundy

When I was dead they rushed the gallows looking for greenbacks in my clothes

Left me naked in the bloody road and I was only twenty

Now God knows that war’s a sin sanctifying killing men

No one’s righteous in the end, a song of old Sue Mundy

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Length: 5:18
Times played: 33
People hearing: 1271
Times requested: 28
First played: Feb 1st, 2007
Last played: May 13th, 2008
Previously played: Apr 26th, 2008
Song ID#: 110978