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My great-granddaddy in black and whiteJust back from TennesseeTrouser leg flapping in the breezeFrom a minnie ball in the kneeThey say he'd stare into the fireAnd tear out his own hairFrom what he'd seen at FranklinAnd the things that he did thereOh Frankin TennesseeWhy you still scaring me?Frankin TennesseeWon't you leave me be?Hood ordered them across that fieldTwo miles of open groundSilently they closed up ranksAs the Yankees shot them downSome reached a salient in the frontAnd it was hand to handFrom the view of 150 yearsWho among us understands?Oh Frankin TennesseeWhy you still scaring me?Frankin TennesseeLetras de cancionesWon't you leave me be?They say that morphine dulled his painAnd drink dulled all the restAnd that all learned to be frightenedWhen he bellowed from his breastFamily turned to rebelsAnd friends to bounty menThen he'd hang his head in shameAnd do it all againOh Frankin TennesseeWhy you still scaring me?Frankin TennesseeWon't you leave me be?So the glory was in GettysburgWhere Pickett made his nameBy losing his divisionTo a massed wall of flameBut more men fell at FranklinAnd it went on and onMinutes into hoursUntil near everyone was goneHe died by his own handIn 1884He traveled back to FranklinAnd laid on the killing floorSaid he wanted to see the other sideWhere the glory it remainsSo he put on his blue uniformAnd put a bullet in his brainOh Frankin TennesseeWhy you still scaring me?Frankin TennesseeWon't you leave me be?What hells do we create on earthWhen men they die and killOld men in photo albumsAnd young ones forever stillFar away from their homesAnd the love awaiting thereDuty and other's biddingAnother unanswered prayerOh Frankin TennesseeWhy you still scaring me?Frankin TennesseeWon't you leave me be?Oh Frankin TennesseeWhy you still scaring me?Frankin TennesseeWon't you leave me be? From Letras Mania