"Oh Kentucky" or "John Morgan"
     ©2005, Roger Judd, CaneyFork Publishing, BMI
     
     
     Chorus was inspired by a poem written by a Civil War veteran, found
     in an out-of-print issue of Confederate Veteran magazine, circa 1901,
     re. Confederate Cavalry commander,  General John Hunt Morgan, an 
     infameous native of Kentucky, who led several mounted raids into that
     State, Ohio, and Indiana, even after Kentucky was decidedly in Federal
     control


          Em
     John Morgan was a wealthy man
          A
     till Lincoln's army burned the land
        G
     He packed his gun and rode away
         A                            B
     and swore that he'd be back some day
         Em
     Oh Kentucky!

     Chorus:
     [      Em                       A            ]
     [ John Morgan's foot is on your shore        ]
     [       G            Em                      ]
     [ Oh Kentucky, Oh Kentucky                   ]
     [                            A               ]
     [ His hand is on your stable door            ]
     [       G            Em                      ]
     [ Oh Kentucky, Oh Kentucky                   ]


     You'll see your chestnut mare no more
     She's carried South, as spoils of war
     He'll ride her till her back is sore
     then leave her at some stranger's door
     Oh Kentucky!

     [Chorus]

     In Tennessee he gathered guns
     And Southern farmer's wayward sons
     the Bluegrass, she would feel the wrath
     for crossing Morgan's dark and bloody path
     Oh Kentucky!

     [Chorus]

           G
     He steals the horses that he needs
         A               B
     and rides em back to Tennessee
           Em
     Oh Kentucky!