(David Munyon/S.P. Standley)

This is a song about the Civil War, with „hope“ that it would never happen again...

In the rain you can't tell a distance
It might be a friend or a foe
Johnny Reb go ahead make your decision
Union Jacks old feet are gettin' cold

Leaving home, leaving Gail and the children
Robert Sloan, all alone standing guard
Patriot of the southern tradition
We have a right to farm the way we want

Destiny plays a game of redemption
Like a wheel of a Casson in the mud
Halbert Blake still in a daze from November
After shooting his first rebel thug

Toy soldiers with faces of little children
Too confused, too tired to complain
Time to march hope old Sarge knows...
Where he's goin'...
Follow blind; follow the Blue and the Grey

Let it go, go ahead, let it go now
You can cry no ones looking ahead
You've still got one good leg to stand on
You're going home, Bob Thatcher tells his friend

Underneath a musky tent Kneels a general
Praying loudly for deliverance for his men
He could be on either side of this conflict
He just wishes he wasn't fighting his old friends

Crumpled letters in a field coat from aunt Lettie
„Are you practicing your music like you said“
„I guess soldiers don't have much free time“
It doesn't matter the reader's already dead

Toy soldiers with faces of little children
Too confused, too tired to complain
Time to march hope old Sarge knows...
Where he's goin'...
Follow blind; follow the Blue and the Grey

The afternoon is the worst for a warrior
Muskets rest and the cook test his art
Once a slave in the beginning of this madness
Now a free-man pushing wounded in a cart

Fourteen years voluteer, old as a mountain
„Send the young one, he's a good shot, yes indeed“
„There's a sniper in the house by the river“
„One less Yankee is all the South needs“

Toy soldiers with faces of little children
Too confused, too tired to complain
Time to march hope old Sarge knows...
Where he's goin'...
Follow blind; follow the Blue and the Grey

David Munyon: vocal, guitar
Chris Jones: guitar
Mike Silver: backing vocals
Beo Brockhausen: tinwhistle
Hans-Jörg Maucksch: bass