THE SILVER BUGLE
By: Charlie Sizemore (BMI)
Dixie Hall (BMI)
Tom T. Hall (BMI)

INTRO: IT'S BEEN MANY YEARS NOW SINCE THAT BLOODY CIVIL WAR
BUT IF YOU WALK ON PUNCHEON CREEK THERE'S MEMORIES GALORE
LISTEN TO THE OLD FOLKS AND THE STORY THAT THEY TELL
ABOUT A SILVER BUGLE AND KENTUCKY'S DAY IN HELL

VERSE 1: ON A PORCH ON PUNCHEON CREEK A MAN OF EIGHTY-NINE
WAS WHITTLIN' AND SPITTIN' AS WE SAT THERE KILLING TIME
THE TALES KEPT GETTING TALLER AS THE JUG WAS PASSED AROUND
WHEN I ROSE TO SAY GOOD NIGHT I HEARD AN EERIE SOUND

VERSE 2: IT SOUNDED LIKE A BUGLE BUT THE OLD MAN SHOOK HIS HEAD
DON'T FEAR THAT SILVER BUGLE, SON, CAUSE ALL THEM BOYS IS DEAD
THE BUGLE YOU ARE HEARING COMES FROM EIGHTEEN SIXTY THREE
IT STILL ECHOES IN THESE HILLS ALONG THE PUNCHEON CREEK

SILVER BUGLE, SILVER TONE, CALLING THEM BOYS BACK HOME

VERSE 3: THE YANKEES HAD A LOT OF STUFF THAT REBEL BOYS COULD USE
LIKE THREE SQUARE MEALS A DAY AND BLANKETS, NOT TO MENTION SHOES
THE REBELS HAD A SILVER BUGLE, SO THE LEGEND GOES
THAT CARRIED THEM TO BATTLE AND IT BROUGHT THEM SAFELY HOME

VERSE 3: THE REBELS FAMOUS SILVER BUGLE KEPT THEIR SPIRITS HIGH
THEY PLAYED IT NIGHT AND MORNING AND WERE NOT AFRAID TO DIE
COLONEL GALLUP GAVE THE ORDER, GET THAT BUGLE AT ALL COST
WE'LL GET THE SILVER BUGLE AND THE REBEL CAUSE IS LOST

VERSE 4: THE YANKEES TOOK THE BATTLE BUT THEY COULDN'T FIND THE HORN
SOME SAY IT WENT TO GABRIEL TO BLOW ON JUDGMENT MORN
IS IT HIDDEN SOMEWHERE HERE UP ON PUNCHEON CREEK
OR IS IT JUST ANOTHER OLD KENTUCKY MYSTERY

SILVER BUGLE, SILVER TONE, CALLING THEM BOYS BACK HOME