Whose side are You on?

Some had on the Rebel gray, some the Union blue.
They were fathers, sons, and brothers, men like me and you.
Engaged in heavy battle, till there came that cloudy draw,
when silence took the battle field. Men just stood in awe.


Some say it was the cannon smoke, some say the Northern lights
that cast a ghostly image over Fredericksburg that night.
Some say it was God's Spirit lookin' o'er the bloody sod.
But that rainbow mist that filled the sky
was the tears of God.


Covered by the blood they shed so many lost their lives.
The fight on that Virginia hill was enough to make Him cry.
Some say it was the cannon smoke, some say the Northern lights,
that cast a ghostly image over Fredericksburg that night.
Some say it was God's Spirit lookin' o'er the bloody sod.
But that rainbow mist that filled the sky 
was the tears of God. 


- Josh Turner, "Tears of God"