Verse 1AmDmAm
Some had on the Rebel grey, Some the Union blue,
AsusGEmAm
They were fathers sons and brothers, men like me and you.
AmDmAm
Engaged in heavy battle, till there came that cloudy draw,
AsusGEmAm
When silence took the battlefield men just stood in awe.
ChorusFGCAm
Some say it was the cannon smoke some say the Northern lights,
DmGEmAm
That cast a ghostly image over Fredericksburg that night,
FGCAm
Some say it was God's spirit looking o'er the bloody sod,
DmG Am(hold)
but that rainbow mist that filled the sky, was the tears of God.
Instrumental : AmFAmFAmCAsusCAmVerse 1AmDmAm
Both sides read his Holy Word and believed it in their hearts,
AsusGEmAm
But the common ground He'd blessed them with had now been torn apart.
AmDmAm
Covered by the blood they shed so many lost their lives,
AsusGEmAm
The fight on that Virginia hill was enough to make Him cry.
ChorusFGCAm
Some say it was the cannon smoke some say the Northern lights,
DmGEmAm
That cast a ghostly image over Fredericksburg that night,
FGCAm
Some say it was God's spirit looking o'er the bloody sod,
DmG Am(hold)
but that rainbow mist that filled the sky, was the tears of God.
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FGCAm
Some say it was the cannon smoke some say the Northern lights,
DmGEmAm
That cast a ghostly image over Fredericksburg that night,
FGCAm
Some say it was God's spirit looking o'er the bloody sod,
DmGAm
but that rainbow mist that filled the sky,
GEmAm
was the tears of God.
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