The Last Roll Call - song lyrics 
American Old-time song lyrics from www.traditionalmusic.co.uk 
THE LAST ROLL CALL. Copyright, 1892, by Frank Harding. Written and Composed by Charles Osborne. 
Fifty years ago last Friday, on a wild and stormy day. I was fighting for our colors, many thousand miles away; Tho' we were but one to twenty, still we beat them-yes, they lost! We were victors, heroes all; but what a price that vict'ry cost! 
Chorus. Side by side, like a crimson tide. in the days of long ago, On we dash'd, and our sabres crash'd, till we conquered ev'ry foe; But one by one, ere the fight was done, I saw my comrades fall, And I was the only one left to answer the Last Roll Call! 
Fifty brave and stalwart soldiers thrashed a host of deadly foes, Fifty sabres flashed like lightning ere the shout of vict'ry rose; Like an avalanche of thunder on we swept-Hurrah: they run: Then I rode back home in silence, all had fallen there but one.-Cho. 
By the dim and ghostly torchlight, there we sought them where they fell, They who'd saved their country's honor, they who'd fought & died so well; Who is this, beneath those shadows? Halt! lads, gently raise his head; Turn the light this way, men-silence, Jack, my own twin brother, dead. -Cho.