Lyrics

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 General Sherman’s Yanks, and “Charleston is taken!”

With a whack, rowdy-dow
A hunky boy is General Sherman
Whack, rowdy-dow
Invincible is he!
This South Carolina chivalry, they once did loudly boast
That the footsteps of a Union man, should ne’er pollute their coast
They’d fight the Yankees two to one, who only fought for booty
But when the mudsills came along it was “Legs, do your duty!”