Fiddler green

this page is dedicated to the warhorses  of the First Kentucky Cavalry

 

R.I.P.

 

JULIE

 

SAM

 

CHEEKA

 

BETSY

 

WHITEY

 

ST. LOUIS  BLUE

 

BUBBY

 

Little Joe

 MISSED AND NOT FORGOTTEN !!

 

 

 

            

 

FIDDLERS GREEN

 

Halfway down the trail to hell, in a shady meadow green are the souls of all dead troopers camped,

near a good old-time canteen and this eternal resting place is known as fiddlers green,

  marching past, straight through to hell the infantry are seen ,accompanied by the engineers, artillery and marines,

 for none but the shades of cavalrymen dismount at fiddlers green .though some go curving down the trail to seek a warmer scene,ere he's emptied his canteen.

   and so rides back to drink again with friends at fiddlers green, and so when man and horse go down beneath a saber keen, or in a roaring charge of fierce melee you stop a bullet clean

  and the hostiles come to get your scalp, just empty your canteen, and go to fiddlers green.

 

song sung by 6th and 7th cavalry

post war