There's a battlefield at Gettysburg
where swords and sabers rust.
And brothers who were flesh and blood
are scattered in the dust.
But every night at Gettysburg
when everything is still.
They say a golden bugle blows
on Cemetery Hill.
Who was the unknown bugle boy
at Gettysburg that day.
And was he wearing Yankee blue
or wearing Southern gray?
Why did he die?
What was his motive?
That Government of the people,
By the people, and for the people shall
not perish from the earth.