Tom Flannery - Chickamauga lyrics

The word itself comes straight from hell Chickamauga say it well Chattanooga Tennessee An infernal place..please leave me be Sometimes I shake in the middle of the night And my wife will hold me oh so tight Until the morning crawls around This quiet little mining town She'll ask about the things I'd seen The friends I lost at age nineteen And what I'd done with my own hands That only a soldier understands Chickamauga Chickamauga Why won't you go away Why won't you go away Why won't you go away From here You'd think that time is all it takes But time grows old and te memories ache And wounds that the naked eye can't see Fester and push love away from me My children are grown and have gone their way Years and years of nothing to say They come home like ghosts and float right past Myself, my chair, and my whiskey gla** It was 2 days in 1863 That took the good from inside of me And turned the world into a fearsome place That the hand of god could not erase Chickamauga Chickamauga Why won't you go away Why won't you go away Why won't you go away From here