American civil war music - The Fall of Charleston

By Shovels and Rope The song, which chronicles the Confederate army’s evacuation of Charleston in 1865 as General William Sherman threatened to march on the Carolinas, builds the signature warbling, upbeat ShoRo sound into the straightforward marching anthem—demonstrated in an earlier version released by Ernie Ford for the War’s centennial in 1961. Oh have you heard the glorious news, is the cry from every mouth, Charleston is taken, and the rebels put to rout; And Beauregard the chivalrous, he ran to save his bacon— When he saw Gen. Sherman’s “Yanks,“ and “Charleston is taken!“