Niall Toner - Myles Walter Keogh Lyrics

In the town of Leighlinbridge
Where the gentle Barrow flows
To a family there was born a son
Myles Walter Keogh
Who at the age of twenty-one
Sailed for Americae
Where he joined the Union Army
For to fight the Boys in Grey

When the Civil War was ended
Myles joined the cavalry
And he rode with General Custer
On a horse called 'Comanchee'
Sent to quell the Indian tribes
Sioux and Chyenne
They rode into their destiny
Almost four hundred men

Myles rode with General Custer
And his Seventh Cavalry
Into a deadly ambush
By that Little Big Horn stream
Outflanked and outnumbered
By those fearsome Indian bands
They fought and died for the white mans greed
At Custer's final stand

Alone stands a wounded horse
Sole survivor of the day
And scattered all around him
The dead and dying lay
So if you chance to pass there
You might offer up a prayer
For the cause that brought them to that place
And for all the fallen there

Myles rode with General Custer
And his Seventh Cavalry
Into a deadly ambush
By that Little Big Horn stream
Outflanked and outnumbered
By those fearsome Indian bands
They fought and died for the white mans greed
At Custer's final stand
They fought and died for the white mans greed
At Custer's final stand