By D.C. Young
As history records the story
fanning all the flames of glory,
Sherman marched his army to the sea.
Then once upon a summer day
there stood a lady dressed in gray,
Sherman put Atlanta under siege.
And when his army blocked the trails
scorched the crops and wrecked the rails,
Sherman brought Atlanta to her knees.
He lit the torch the world remembers
till dreams lay charred beneath the embers,
Sherman burned Atlanta to the ground
Three hundred miles and sixty wide
As Georgia burned and angels cried,
Sherman marched his army to the sea.
