The Story of a Soldier

Bugles are calling from prairie to shore Sign up and fall in, and march off to war Blue grass and cotton, burnt and forgotten All hope seems gone So soldier march on to die Bugles are calling from prairie to shore Sign up and fall in, and march off to war There in the distance a flag I can see Scorched and in ribbons, but whose can it be? How ends the story, whose is the glory Ask if we dare, our comrades out there who sleep