Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Drums in the dust
Guns in a smoky line
First Minnesota
Waiting on borrowed time
"Hold that gap
Or the whole field dies"
We could taste the iron
Hear our captain cry
[Chorus]
"Take those colors!
Take those colors!
Forward now
Don’t you run!"
Two hundred fifty
Into thunder
Forty men
Walked back when it was done
[Verse 2]
Boots in the wheat
Flags in a blaze of red
Boys from the prairie
Charging straight ahead
Friends fell hard
Calling out home names
We closed that break
In a wall of flame
[Outro]
We took those colors
But we left our own
Two hundred fifty
Cut down to bone
If you walk that ridge
And the wind turns cold
Hear "Take those colors"
In the rolling roll
Style
sparse drum and low drone bass to evoke marchproduction keeps it intimate but anthemic on hookfiddle and banjo carrying melodystomps and handclaps like work-songmale vocals with raw gang-chorus responsesmodern folk shanty with battlefield rhythm; mid-tempo 6/8 swayshanty
Prompt
Shanty, American civil war, 1st Minnesota was ordered to charge and “take those colors” to keep the line from being broken. 250 men charged in and only 40 walked out.
Credits
Prompt byWhyAllSadddd
GeneratedDec 14, 2025
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