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Major General

from Oh. (EP) by Chip & Drifty

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Major General

The Major went down to the general store
To limp in to his-story
A 20-inch box for patella to toenail
To travel up the Potomac

Elbow to knee
Paper to pen
He didn’t know what to tell them…

I lost my mind the very first time…1859
Flowers for the missus, the missus gone amiss
In another mister’s trousers

I chased him down to Lafayette
Asked him for any last words
“O say can you see” was enough for me
I shot the son of a Francis Scott Key

Behind bars, I wait
Day turned a week
Counsel came to counsel me, desperate as can be
“I’ve got a crazy idea.

“You haven’t got a left leg left
To stand on,” Stanton said to me
They let me off I was the first not guilty
By reason of insanity

“With the compliments of Major General”
Sickles was his name
“With the compliments of Major General,
D.E.S.”

The second time I lost my mind…four years gone by
From Fredericksburg to Chancellorsville, the South gone bad at Gettysburg
Defiantly I stand

My many men met bayonets
A cannonball catches me
My leg is gone
I will remains

Chorus…
D.E.S.

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from Oh. (EP), released November 22, 2013
Written, performed, arranged, recorded, produced, mixed and otherwise tinkered with by Chip & Drifty.

...except the bass, which was played by Mikael Jacobson.

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