Tom Flannery - Franklin lyrics

My great-granddaddy in black and white Just back from Tennessee Trouser leg flapping in the breeze From a minnie ball in the knee They say he'd stare into the fire And tear out his own hair From what he'd seen at Franklin And the things that he did there Oh Frankin Tennessee Why you still scaring me? Frankin Tennessee Won't you leave me be Hood ordered them across that field Two miles of open ground Silently they closed up ranks As the Yankees shot them down Some reached a salient in the front And it was hand to hand From the view of 150 years Who among us understands? Oh Frankin Tennessee Why you still scaring me? Frankin Tennessee Won't you leave me be They say that morphine dulled his pain And drink dulled all the rest And that all learned to be frightened When he bellowed from his breast Family turned to rebels And friends to bounty men Then he'd hang his head in shame And do it all again Oh Frankin Tennessee Why you still scaring me? Frankin Tennessee Won't you leave me be So the glory was in Gettysburg Where Pickett made his name By losing his division To a ma**ed wall of flame But more men fell at Franklin And it went on and on Minutes into hours Until near everyone was gone He died by his own hand In 1884 He traveled back to Frankin And laid on the k**ing floor Said he wanted to see the other side Where the glory it remains So he put on his blue uniform And put a bullet in his brain Oh Frankin Tennessee Why you still scaring me? Frankin Tennessee Won't you leave me be What hell's do we create on earth When men they die and k** Old men in photo albums And young ones forever still Far away from their homes And the love awaiting there Duty and other's bidding Another unanswered prayer Oh Frankin Tennessee Why you still scaring me? Frankin Tennessee Won't you leave me be Oh Frankin Tennessee Why you still scaring me? Frankin Tennessee Won't you leave me be