Through the smoke and the mud and the blood we walked behind Robert E. Lee Sixty miles from Richmond to face the Union Army We dug our holes and we built a wall ‘cause we knew they'd be a fight If the blue coats wearin' soldiers crossed the river that night Sure as hell that sundown came a hundred thousand men And it's sure did shock me Lord, Kin killing Kin The cannonballs were heavy filled with iron and steel and lead And the James river water ran a bloody red Lord is it right? Did you mean for me to kill my brother here tonight? It's been one hundred years and as I look around I see a mighty city where there once was a battleground I thought when Lee surrended we would fight no more But the ghost of Lee can still see us fight the civil war Lord is it right? Did you mean for me to kill my brother here tonight?