Reply To The Bonnie Blue Flag chords by Traditional

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
     G        C      G        D7
We are a fighting for our Union, we're fighting for our trust,
   G                  C     D7    G
we're fighting for that happy land, where sleeps our fathers’ dust.
       C           G       D7
It cannot be dissevered, though it cost us bloody wars,
  G                 C     D7     G
we never can give up the land, where floats the stripes and stars.

Chorus:
  G    D7    C        G
Hurrah! Hurrah! for equal rights, hurrah!
  G      C         D7          G
Hurrah! for the good old flag that bears the stripes and stars!

Verse 2:
  G       C      G        D7
We trusted you as brothers, until you drew the sword,
   G            C      D7   G
with impious hands at Sumpter you cut the silver cord.
          C     G         D7
So now you hear the bugles, we come, the sons of Mars,
  G                  C     D7     G
to rally round the brave old flag, that bears the stripes and stars.

Chorus:
  G    D7    C        G
Hurrah! Hurrah! for equal rights, hurrah!
  G      C         D7          G
Hurrah! for the good old flag that bears the stripes and stars!

Verse 3:
  G        C     G        D7
We do not want your cotton, we do not want your slaves,
   G                 C     D7    G
but rather than divide the land, we'll fill your Southern graves.
           C       G         D7
With Lincoln for our chieftain, we wear our country's stars,
  G                  C     D7     G
and rally round the brave old flag that bears the stripes and stars.

Chorus:
  G    D7    C        G
Hurrah! Hurrah! for equal rights, hurrah!
  G      C         D7          G
Hurrah! for the good old flag that bears the stripes and stars!

Verse 4:
  G          C    G         D7
We deem our cause most holy, we know we're in the right,
  G               C   D7   G
and twenty million free men stand ready for the fight.
         C      G        D7
Our pride is fair Columbia, no stain her beauty mars,
  G                   C     D7     G
on her we'll raise the brave old flag that bears the stripes and stars.

Chorus:
  G    D7    C        G
Hurrah! Hurrah! for equal rights, hurrah!
  G      C         D7          G
Hurrah! for the good old flag that bears the stripes and stars!

Verse 5:
  G        C      G        D7
And when this war is over, we'll each resume our home,
  G              C     D7   G
and treat you still as brothers, where ever you may roam.
             C        G        D7
We'll pledge the hand of friendship, and think no more of war,
  G                  C     D7     G
but dwell in peace beneath the flag that bears the stripes and stars.

Chorus:
  G    D7    C        G
Hurrah! Hurrah! for equal rights, hurrah!
  G      C         D7          G
Hurrah! for the good old flag that bears the stripes and stars!