{"id":168,"date":"2007-01-27T11:04:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T19:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/union-hero\/"},"modified":"2007-01-27T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T19:06:04","slug":"union-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/union-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written in about 1976, and based on my ancestor Uncle Hyland Biddle, wounded at the Battle of Shiloh<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nCHORUS:<\/p>\n<p><em>Well, I feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m slippin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 into hell to the sound of a rebel yell;<br \/>\nI only want to be a Union hero,<br \/>\nMost decorated man at the Battle of Shiloh;<br \/>\nBut I had to get shot in the knee,<br \/>\nAnd, as the doctor said to me,<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If the pain don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t kill you, boy, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be the gangrene.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--> Daddy, Daddy, won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you buy me a gun,<br \/>\nI don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need a new jacket or a pair of boots;<br \/>\nThere are rabbits in the spring and turkeys in the fall,<br \/>\nThere are so many things that I can learn to shoot.<\/p>\n<p>Mama, Mama, gonna leave you for a while,<br \/>\nAre you sure my uniform\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clean?<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll write you aletter and send you a flag,<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna be the best soldier Mr. Lincoln\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<p>Captain, Captain, won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you let me up front,<br \/>\nThis Pennsylvania boy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got eyes like a cat;<br \/>\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve hunted \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpossum and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dccoon and white-tailed deer,<br \/>\nI know I can show you where those rebels are at.<\/p>\n<p>Darlin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, Darlin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, had the craziest dream,<br \/>\nThe war was over, everybody wore green;<br \/>\nDo you think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting better like you said I would,<br \/>\nOr do you think I took a little too much morphine?<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written in about 1976, and based on my ancestor Uncle Hyland Biddle, wounded at the Battle of Shiloh CHORUS: Well, I feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m slippin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 into hell to the sound of a rebel yell; I only want to be a Union hero, Most decorated man at the Battle of Shiloh; But I had to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}