Famous Quotes | ‘Oh beat the drum slowly and...

‘Oh beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,
Play the Dead March as you carry me along;
Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod o’er me,
For I’m a young cowboy and I know I’ve done wrong. - Unknown
Attribution: Unknown. As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo (l. 5–8). . . Rattle Bag, The; an Anthology of Poetry. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, comps. (1982) Faber and Faber.

Categories: Death, Remorse

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