Just Another Rebel?

words and music by Charles Stephen Sedberry

A standing stone upon the hillside,
Coosa flows  along below.
Such a peaceful-looking river
where this youth   drowned long ago.

Chorus:
Was he just another rebel
back before that bloody civil war
or did-- he understand that freedom
is something we-- must all keep fighting for--?

On the stone it should say, "William,"
for that was my-- uncle's name,
but it just  gives his initials
to abbre--viate his pa--rents pain.

Anna Jane was his mother,
Shadrack Hogan was his pa;
his brother* was my great grandfather
in the years-- before the great-- civil war--.

Had he lived he'd have been a soldier,
but he drowned at-- seventeen.
Was his death an early blessing
to save-- him from some gory battle scene--?

(C)Copyright 1986, 1990 Steve Sedberry